From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishchowderchow‧der /ˈtʃaʊdə $ -ər/ noun [uncountable] DFFa thick soup usually made with fish, vegetables, and milk
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chowder• I have never had such good clam chowder that they have over at the Brighton House.• Shrug, and serve some more clam chowder.• There was cheese soup and a brat, or clam chowder and baked stuffed lobster, or gumbo and chicken jambalaya.• The tuna tartare with chopped avocado, the clam chowder with smoked bacon and the giant Louisiana prawns were all a hit.• The tastiest way to warm up is with a bowl of Boston's traditional clam chowder with oyster crackers.• They make it look like a ship with waiters like pirates singing shanties into your clam chowder.• Morrill glanced sideways at the cooling chowder and let it go.• Jasper got half way through a bowl of ghoulish-looking chowder.Origin chowder (1700-1800) French chaudière “(dish made in) a cooking pot”, from Late Latin caldaria; → CAULDRON 