Cheese Tʃiːz Made Milk Chalk Noun Bre Cheddar

• cheddar cheese
• goat’s cheese (= made from the milk of a goat)
• a cheese sandwich/salad
• a chunk/piece/slice of cheese

cheese

1. 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
• see also American cheese
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/american-cheese
• Cheddar cheese
• goat’s cheese (= made from the milk of a goat)
• a cheese sandwich/salad
• a chunk/piece/slice of cheese
• 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)
2. what you ask somebody to say before you take their photograph
3. an important and powerful person, especially in an organization
4. 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.
5. used as a way of saying that you are sorry about something, usually ironically (= you really mean the opposite)

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.

Word Origin

• Old English cēse, cȳse, of West Germanic origin; related to Dutch kaas and German Käse; from Latin caseus.