Meaning

2 senses
  1. (countable, uncountable)A common processed cheese, yellow or white in color and mild in flavor, with a medium-firm consistency.

    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.

    Sandwichkäse, Toastkäse

    Американський сирAmerykansʹkyj syr

  2. (countable, uncountable)Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see American, cheese: any cheese made in America.

    The opinions on importation of American wheat and steel did not seem as negative as those against importation of American cheese and beer.

More definitions
  • hard smooth-textured cheese; originally made in Cheddar in southwestern England

Translations

3 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
common processed cheese with a medium-firm consistency:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
common processed cheese with a medium-firm consistency:

Forms

plural: American cheeses
SingularAmerican cheese
PluralAmerican cheeses

regular

Synonyms

7 synonyms
Close in meaning

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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