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Definition of cheese noun from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

cheese

noun
 
 
/tʃiːz/
 
/tʃiːz/
Idioms
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  1.  
     [uncountable, countable] a type of food made from milk that can be either soft or hard and is usually white or yellow in colour; a particular type of this food
    • Cheddar cheese
    • (British English) goat’s cheese (= made from the milk of a goat)
    • a cheese sandwich
    • a piece/slice/block of cheese
    • I had cheese on toast (= toasted bread covered in melted cheese) for lunch.
    • a selection of French cheeses
    • a cheese knife (= a knife with a special curved blade with two points on the end, used for cutting and picking up pieces of cheese)
    • a snack of bread and cheese
    • a wedge/hunk/chunk of cheese
    • a cheese sauce/salad
    see also American cheese, blue cheese, cauliflower cheese, cottage cheese, cream cheese, curd cheese, feta cheese, goat cheese, Jack cheese, macaroni cheese, pot cheese, string cheese, Swiss cheese
    Extra Examples
    • Cut the cheese into cubes.
    • Sprinkle the cheese over the beans.
    • Sprinkle the potatoes with grated cheese and grill for a few minutes.
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    Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective
    • hard
    • soft
    • sharp
    • …
    … of cheese
    • chunk
    • hunk
    • lump
    • …
    verb + cheese
    • make
    • cut
    • grate
    • …
    cheese + noun
    • fondue
    • omelette
    • roll
    • …
    phrases
    • bread and cheese
    • cheese and biscuits
    • cheese and crackers
    • …
    See full entry
  2. cheese!
     what you ask somebody to say before you take their photograph
    3. Word OriginOld English cēse, cȳse, of West Germanic origin; related to Dutch kaas and German Käse; from Latin caseus.
Idioms
a big cheese
  1. (informal, humorous) an important and powerful person, especially in an organization
chalk and cheese
  1. (British English) if two people or things are like chalk and cheese or as different as chalk and cheese, they are completely different from each other
    • Frank and I will never get along. We’re chalk and cheese.
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hard cheese
  1. (British English, informal) used as a way of saying that you are sorry about something, usually ironically (= you really mean the opposite)
See cheese in the Oxford Advanced American DictionarySee cheese in the Oxford Learner's Dictionary of Academic English
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