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A common processed cheese, yellow or white in color and mild in flavor, with a medium-firm consistency.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Examples
- Near-synonyms: rat-trap cheese, rat cheese, government cheese
- Many of you other brothers can't deny that American cheese on white bread with yellow mustard is a guilty pleasure that reminds us of our childhood.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: store cheese, rat-trap cheese, rat cheese, government cheese
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: cheese, cheese food, processed cheese, food
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see American, cheese: any cheese made in America.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Examples
- The opinions on importation of American wheat and steel did not seem as negative as those against importation of American cheese and beer.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
hard smooth-textured cheese; originally made in Cheddar in southwestern England
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: cheddar, cheddar cheese, Armerican cheddar
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: cheese
Narrower terms: rat cheese, store cheese
No etymology was provided for this word.
Across languages
Translations
9 source translations are retained for this English entry.
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Dutch:
Amerikaanse kaas
— common processed cheese with a medium-firm consistency
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Finnish:
sulatejuusto
— common processed cheese with a medium-firm consistency
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German:
Sandwichkäse
— common processed cheese with a medium-firm consistency
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German:
Toastkäse
— common processed cheese with a medium-firm consistency
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Korean:
슬라이스 치즈
(seullaiseu chijeu)
— common processed cheese with a medium-firm consistency
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Portuguese:
queijo americano
— common processed cheese with a medium-firm consistency
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Romanian:
brânză americană
— common processed cheese with a medium-firm consistency
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Swedish:
amerikansk ost
— common processed cheese with a medium-firm consistency
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Ukrainian:
Американський сир
(Amerykansʹkyj syr)
— common processed cheese with a medium-firm consistency
