parmesan
A hard, full-fat Italian cheese from Parma or its neighboring province Reggio EmiliaA hard, full-fat Italian cheese from Parma or its neighboring province Reggio Emilia.
Recorded: Commander Keane, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
» Is Parmesan considered a strong cheese?
CK · Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FRTranslations
8 languagesBy meaning 1
By meaning 1
Examples
31 sentencesIs Parmesan considered a strong cheese?
Do you like Parmesan cheese on spaghetti?
Matthew's favorite dish is chicken parmesan, which he could eat every day.
Meaning
3 senses(uncountable, usually)A hard, full-fat Italian cheese from Parma or its neighboring province Reggio Emilia.
Parmesan, Parmesankäse
пармеза́нparmezán
(broadly, uncountable, usually)A similar cheese produced elsewhere.
Most of the parmesan in our grocery store comes from Wisconsin.
(slang, uncountable, usually)Money.
- hard dry sharp-flavored Italian cheese; often grated
Origin
Borrowed from Middle French parmesan, from an earlier Vulgar Latin *parmēsānus, restructurBorrowed from Middle French parmesan, from an earlier Vulgar Latin *parmēsānus, restructuring of Latin parmēnsis (from Latin Parma).
Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0 · source
Forms
plural: parmesansSynonyms
3 synonymsWord family
3 related wordsLessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable
See also
neighbours in the dictionaryDictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.