Log in or Sign up
  1. chowder love

Definitions

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A thick soup containing fish or shellfish, especially clams, and vegetables, such as potatoes and onions, in a milk or tomato base.
  2. n. A soup similar to this seafood dish: corn chowder.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. A dish of fish or clams boiled with biscuits or crackers, pork, potatoes, onions, etc., and variously seasoned. It is common among the fishermen on the banks of Newfoundland and in New England.
  2. n. A picnic party, especially at the sea-shore, at which the main dish is chowder. See def. 1.
  3. n. A fish-seller. Halliwell.
  4. To make a chowder of: as, to chowder fish.

Wiktionary

  1. n. A thick, creamy soup or stew.
  2. n. A stew, particularly fish or seafood, not necessarily thickened.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. (Cookery) A dish made of fresh fish or clams, biscuit, onions, etc., stewed together.
  2. n. Prov. Eng. A seller of fish.
  3. v. To make a chowder of.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. a thick soup or stew made with milk and bacon and onions and potatoes

Etymologies

  1. Probably from French chaudière ("pot"), from chaud ("hot") (also related to the Latin caldaria and English cauldron). Possibly from Old English jowter ("fish monger"). (Wiktionary)
  2. French chaudière, stew pot, from Old French, from Late Latin caldāria; see cauldron. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

Examples

Show 10 more examples...

Log in or sign up to add your own related words.

hypernyms (1)

Words that are more generic or abstract

  1. soup

hyponyms (3)

Words that are more specific

  1. fish chowder
  1. corn chowder
  1. clam chowder

same context (24)

Words that are found in similar contexts

  1. fritter
  2. casserole
  3. gumbo
  4. omelette
  1. porridge
  2. broth
  3. mayonnaise
  4. stew
  1. pasta
  2. caviar
  3. risotto
  4. chili
  1. grog
  2. mush
  3. ketchup
  4. burkha
  1. prawn
  2. pesto
  3. bouillabaisse
  4. jambalaya
  1. hash
  2. cutlet
  3. custard
  4. steak

rhymes (7)

Words with the same terminal sound

  1. browder
  1. crowder
  1. lauder
  1. louder
  1. powder
  1. prouder
  1. souder

reverse dictionary (13)

Words that contain this word in their definition

  1. fish chowder
  2. Manhattan clam chowder
  1. New England clam chowder
  2. clam chowder
  1. corn chowder
  2. chowder
  1. bouillabaisse
  2. fish-chowder
  1. haddock-tea
  2. brim
  1. chock-a-block
  2. muddle
  1. soup

tags (1)

Free-form, user-generated categorization

  1. food

Log in or sign up to add your own tag.

Wordmap

(beta)

Word visualization

Lists

These user-created lists contain the word ‘chowder’.

More lists containing ‘chowder’

Comments

Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.

  • reesetee Good! I could use a vacation. ;-> Aug 21, 2007

  • uselessness You're fired! Aug 21, 2007

  • reesetee Wow. That's pretty scary, The uselessness. Aug 21, 2007

  • uselessness As long as you're going to be thinking anyway, you might as well think big. ;-) Aug 21, 2007

  • jennarenn THE uselessness? Like The Donald? Aug 21, 2007

  • uselessness Nothing, I says nothing, gets by the uselessness. Aug 21, 2007

  • jennarenn Rats! ;) Aug 21, 2007

  • uselessness The Award-Winning Virginia Fighting Cavalier Indoor/Outdoor Precision(?) Marching PEP Band & Chowder Society Revue, Unlimited!!! Aug 21, 2007

  • jennarenn TAWVFCI/OP(?)MPB&CSRU!!!
    Aug 21, 2007

  • karmicunderpath "New England clam chowder."
    "Is that the red or the white?" Aug 21, 2007

  • andrew.simone '...say it right.' Dec 9, 2006

Tweets

Looking for tweets for chowder.

‘chowder’ has been looked up 1991 times, loved by 2 people, added to 22 lists, commented on 11 times, and has a Scrabble score of 16.