CHOWDER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does chowder mean? 

• CHOWDER (noun)
  The noun CHOWDER has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: CHOWDER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CHOWDER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A thick soup or stew made with milk and bacon and onions and potatoes

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Hypernyms ("chowder" is a kind of...):

soup (liquid food especially of meat or fish or vegetable stock often containing pieces of solid food)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "chowder"):

corn chowder (chowder containing corn)

clam chowder (chowder containing clams)

fish chowder (chowder containing fish)