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cheddar

cheddar

50 1.0
A hard, smooth cheese with a strong, sharp taste
  • noun
  • /ˈtʃɛdər/
translation icon : queso cheddar
  • Although I ordered cheddar, not pepper jack.
  • American cheddar

I know the ones that I eat the most are probably cheddar.

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Examples

  • Consuming a compact portion of cheddar cheese and fruit is the best way to do that.

    Blog text (4)
  • Enough time passes for me to get halfway through a cheddar cheese and mustard sandwich.

    Fiction book (1996)
  • Thanks, buddy, but I'm pretty full from the cheddar.

  • And that's this right here, which is cheddar, not American cheese.

  • I made us all a turkey sandwich with cheddar for the long drive to Quadrant 44.

    Fiction book (2002)
  • Serve it with hunks of bread and maybe a slab of sharp cheddar cheese thrown across the top.

    Fiction book (1994)
  • Then I added some shredded cheddar cheese, garlic powder, salt, and pepper to the potatoes.

    Blog text (19)
  • I've got the stuff to try to make my own Panera broccoli cheddar soup.

  • Next came the cheese, three squares of white cheddar laid, always, corner-to-corner atop the onions, like yield signs.

    Fiction book (2002)
  • I made us all a turkey sandwich with cheddar for the long drive to Quadrant 44.

Synonyms

cheddar cheese
vscheddar
12 1.0

A hard, smooth cheese with a strong taste commonly used in cooking and sandwiches

is the shorter name form that drops the extra noun

Compounds

A hard, smooth cheese with a strong taste commonly used in cooking and sandwiches

A low garden plant that lives for many years and has fragrant pink or red flowers

How Sharp

cheddar
50 1.0
mild-tasting
1 3.4

Surface Forms

cheddar singular
cheddars plural

Etymology

Cheddar is named after the village of Cheddar in southwest England, where cheese makers traditionally aged their cheese in cool caves. That's why cheddar now means the hard, smooth cheese that first came from that place.