cheese
A dairy product made from curdled or cultured milkA dairy product made from curdled or cultured milk.
» I like butter better than cheese.
Я більше люблю масло, ніж сир.
Мені більше подобається масло, ніж сир.
Meaning
18 senses(uncountable)A dairy product made from curdled or cultured milk.
Käse, Chääs, Kas
сырsyr, творо́гtvoróg, тво́рогtvórog
сирsyr
(countable)Any particular variety of cheese.
Käse
сырsyr
(countable)A piece of cheese, especially one moulded into a large round shape during manufacture.
(UK, uncountable)A thick variety of jam (fruit preserve), as distinguished from a thinner variety (sometimes called jelly)
(countable, uncountable)A substance resembling cream cheese, such as lemon cheese
(colloquial, uncountable)That which is melodramatic, overly emotional, or cliché, i.e. cheesy.
(slang, uncountable)Money.
(UK, countable)In skittles, the roughly ovoid object that is thrown to knock down the skittles.
(slang, uncountable)A fastball.
(slang, uncountable)A dangerous mixture of black tar heroin and crushed Tylenol PM tablets. The resulting powder resembles grated cheese and is snorted.
(countable, slang, uncountable, vulgar)Smegma.
(countable, uncountable)Holed pattern of circuitry to decrease pattern density.
- a solid food prepared from the pressed curd of milk
- erect or decumbent Old World perennial with axillary clusters of rosy-purple flowers; introduced in United States
Examples
798 sentencesI like butter better than cheese.
Я більше люблю масло, ніж сир.
There is no more cheese left.
Сиру більше не лишилося.
ruСыра больше нет.
We don't have any more cheese.
У нас закінчився сир.
ruУ нас сыр закончился.
I would like to buy some cheese.
Я хотів би купити сиру.
ruЯ бы хотел купить немного сыра.
deIch möchte gerne Käse kaufen.
This cheese needs to be thrown out.
Цей сир треба викинути.
ruЭтот сыр нужно выбросить.
Translations
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Origin
From Middle English chese, from Anglian Old English ċēse, from Proto-West Germanic *kāsī,From Middle English chese, from Anglian Old English ċēse, from Proto-West Germanic *kāsī, borrowed from Latin cāseus. Doublet of queso.
Though commonly claimed to be a borrowing of Persian چیز (čiz, “thing”), the term does not occur earliest in Anglo-Indian sources, but instead is "well recorded in British and Australian sources from the 1840s onwards".
From cheesy.
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Forms
plural: cheesesSynonyms
8 synonyms- erect or decumbent Old World perennial with axillary clusters of rosy-purple flowers; introduced in United States:tall mallowhigh mallowcheeseflowerMalva sylvestris
Antonyms
1 antonymsWord family
178 related wordsLessons for this word
3 lessons- A1Food and drink — Because the lesson uses it
- A1Plural nouns — Because its plural is irregular
- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable
Collocations
12 patterns- kind of cheese
- goat cheese
- cheese sandwich
- how much cheese
- buy some cheese
- ham and cheese
- and cheese sandwich
- like cheese
- some cheese
- much cheese did
- cheese is made
- eat cheese