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A large village and civil parish, previously in Sedgemoor district, Somerset, England, famous for its cheese, and also for its gorge, caves and remains of early man found in them (OS grid ref ST4553).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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A ghost town in Highlands East municipality, Haliburton County, Ontario, Canada.
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noun
Cheddar cheese.
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Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
A cheese styled after the Cheddar cheese made in Cheddar.
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Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
Money, cash, currency.
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Usage: countable, slang, uncountable
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verb
To cut and press cheese so as to remove the whey and leave drier curds.
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Usage: transitive
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noun
hard smooth-textured cheese; originally made in Cheddar in southwestern England
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: cheddar cheese, Armerican cheddar, American cheese
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Broader terms: cheese
Narrower terms: rat cheese, store cheese
noun
a village in southwestern England where cheddar cheese was first made
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Broader terms: village, hamlet
History
From Middle English [Term?], from Old English Ceodre, likely from the word ceodor (“cavity, pouch; ravine”), as there is a gorge near the town.
From Cheddar cheese. The slang use meaning "money, currency" may be derived from association with cheese (“wealth”), probably from Persian چیز (čiz, “thing”).
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