name
Meaning 1
A city in Milan, Lombardy, Italy.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Standard Lemma guide
gorgonzola
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noun
Meaning 2
A blue-veined Italian cheese, made from cow's milk.
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Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
Meaning 3
Alternative form of gorgonzola (“cheese”).
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Usage: alt-of, alternative, countable, uncountable
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noun
Meaning 4
Italian blue cheese
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: bleu, blue cheese
History
Etymology
Borrowed from Italian Gorgonzola.
Borrowed from Italian Gorgonzola, a town in northern Italy where the cheese originated.
Across languages
Translations
17 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Czech: gorgonzola — Italian cheese
- Finnish: gorgonzola — Italian cheese
- Finnish: gorgonzolajuusto — Italian cheese
- French: gorgonzola — Italian cheese
- Italian: gorgonzola — Italian cheese
- Japanese: ゴルゴンゾーラ (gorugonzōra) — Italian cheese
- Korean: 고르곤졸라 (goreugonjolla) — Italian cheese
- Lombard: gorgonzoeula — Italian cheese
- Macedonian: горгонзола (gorgonzola) — Italian cheese
- Polish: gorgonzola — Italian cheese
- Portuguese: gorgonzola — Italian cheese
- Romanian: gorgonzola — Italian cheese
- Russian: горгондзола (gorgondzola) — Italian cheese
- Spanish: gorgonzola — Italian cheese
- Turkish: gorgonzola — Italian cheese
- Turkish: gorgonzola peyniri — Italian cheese
- Ukrainian: горгондзола (horhondzola) — Italian cheese