Cheddar cheese

English

Noun

Cheddar cheese (countable and uncountable, plural Cheddar cheeses)

1. A variety of hard, pale yellow cheese originally produced in the region around Cheddar in Somerset, England.
   • 1962 October, Brian Haresnape, “Focus on B.R. passenger stations”, in Modern Railways, page 253:

     Hundreds of examples remain, still following the same general pattern—maroon, green or chocolate brown, for example, from ground to waist level, then a stale Cheddar cheese shade of cream above.

2. Any similar cheese made anywhere in the world.

Synonyms

• Cheddar (shortening from "Cheddar cheese" by dropping "cheese")
• cheddar cheese
• cheddar

Derived terms

• Cheddaring
• Cheddar

Translations

cheese

• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 車打芝士／车打芝士 (ce¹ daa² zi¹ si^6-2)

  Mandarin: 車打乾酪／车打干酪 (Chēdǎ gānlào)

• Danish: Cheddar ost
• Dutch: Cheddar
• Esperanto: ĉedaro
• Finnish: cheddarjuusto (fi), cheddar (fi)
• French: fromage Cheddar m, cheddar (fr) m
• Galician: cheddar (gl)
• Georgian: ჩედერი (čederi)
• German: Cheddar m, Cheddarkäse m
• Greek: Τσένταρ (el) (Tséntar), τυρί Τσένταρ (tyrí Tséntar)
• Hawaiian: waiūpaʻa keka
• Hebrew: צ׳דר
• Indonesian: keju Cheddar
• Irish: cáis chéadair f
• Italian: formaggio Cheddar m
• Japanese: チェダーチーズ (Chedā-chīzu)
• Korean: 체다 치즈 (Cheda chijeu)
• Maltese: Ċedder
• Norwegian: Cheddarost
• Portuguese: cheddar m
• Russian: чеддер (ru) m (čéddɛr), сыр чеддер m (syr čéddɛr)
• Slovak: Čedar
• Spanish: Cheddar
• Swedish: cheddar (sv) c, cheddarost c
• Turkish: çedar, çedar peyniri
• Welsh: caws Cheddar m