Stew vs. Chowder — What's the Difference?

A stew is a combination of solid food ingredients that have been cooked in liquid and served in the resultant gravy. Ingredients in a stew can include any combination of vegetables and may include meat, especially tougher meats suitable for slow-cooking, such as beef, poultry, sausages, and seafood.

Chowder is a type of soup or stew often prepared with milk or cream and thickened with broken crackers, crushed ship biscuit, or a roux. Variations of chowder can be seafood or vegetable.

To cook (food) by simmering or boiling slowly.

A thick soup containing fish or shellfish, especially clams, and vegetables, such as potatoes and onions, in a milk or tomato base.

To undergo cooking by boiling slowly or simmering.

A soup similar to this seafood dish

(Informal) To suffer with oppressive heat or stuffy confinement; swelter.

A thick, creamy soup or stew.

(Informal) To be in a state of anxiety or agitation.

A stew, particularly fish or seafood, not necessarily thickened.

(obsolete) A cooking-dish used for boiling; a cauldron.

(transitive) To make (seafood, etc.) into chowder.

A heated bath-room or steam-room; also, a hot bath.

A dish made of fresh fish or clams, biscuit, onions, etc., stewed together.

(archaic) A brothel.

A seller of fish.

(obsolete) A prostitute.

To make a chowder of.

A dish cooked by stewing.

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

(Sussex) A pool in which fish are kept in preparation for eating.

An artificial bed of oysters.

(slang) A state of agitated excitement, worry, and/or confusion.

(informal) A steward or stewardess on an airplane or boat.

To cook (food) by slowly boiling or simmering.

(transitive) To brew (tea) for too long, so that the flavour becomes too strong.

To suffer under uncomfortably hot conditions.

To be in a state of elevated anxiety or anger.

A small pond or pool where fish are kept for the table; a vivarium.

An artificial bed of oysters.

A place of stewing or seething; a place where hot bathes are furnished; a hothouse.

A brothel; - usually in the plural.

A prostitute.

A dish prepared by stewing; as, a stewof pigeons.

A state of agitating excitement; a state of worry; confusion; as, to be in a stew.

To boil slowly, or with the simmering or moderate heat; to seethe; to cook in a little liquid, over a gentle fire, without boiling; as, to stew meat; to stew oysters; to stew apples.

To be seethed or cooked in a slow, gentle manner, or in heat and moisture.

Agitation resulting from active worry;

Food prepared by stewing especially meat or fish with vegetables

Be in a huff; be silent or sullen

Bear a grudge; harbor ill feelings

Cook slowly and for a long time in liquid;