Chowder vs. Gumbo: What's the Difference?

Chowder and Gumbo Definitions
Chowder
A thick soup containing fish or shellfish, especially clams, and vegetables, such as potatoes and onions, in a milk or tomato base.
Gumbo
Chiefly Southern US See okra.
Chowder
A soup similar to this seafood dish
Corn chowder.
Gumbo
A soup or stew thickened with okra pods. Also called okra.
Chowder
A thick, creamy soup or stew.
Fish chowder
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Gumbo
Chiefly Mississippi Valley & Western US A fine silty soil, common in the southern and western United States, that forms an unusually sticky mud when wet.
Chowder
A stew, particularly fish or seafood, not necessarily thickened.
Gumbo
Gumbo A French patois spoken by some black people and Creoles in Louisiana and the French West Indies.
Chowder
(transitive) To make (seafood, etc.) into chowder.
Gumbo
(countable) okra: the plant or its edible capsules.
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Chowder
A dish made of fresh fish or clams, biscuit, onions, etc., stewed together.
Gumbo
(countable) A soup or stew popular in Louisiana, consisting of a strong stock, meat or shellfish, a thickener (often okra), and the "Holy Trinity" of celery, bell peppers, and onions.
Chowder
A seller of fish.
Gumbo
(uncountable) A fine silty soil that when wet becomes very thick and heavy.
Chowder
To make a chowder of.
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Gumbo
A soup thickened with the mucilaginous pods of the okra; okra soup.
Chowder
A thick soup or stew made with milk and bacon and onions and potatoes
Gumbo
The okra plant or its pods.
Gumbo
Any of various fine-grained silty soils that become waxy and very sticky mud when saturated with water
Gumbo
Tall coarse annual of Old World tropics widely cultivated in southern United States and West Indies for its long mucilaginous green pods used as basis for soups and stews; sometimes placed in genus Hibiscus
Gumbo
Long mucilaginous green pods; may be simmered or sauteed but used especially in soups and stews
Gumbo
A soup or stew thickened with okra pods