AMERICAN CHEESE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does American cheese mean? 

• AMERICAN CHEESE (noun)
  The noun AMERICAN CHEESE has 1 sense:

1. hard smooth-textured cheese; originally made in Cheddar in southwestern England

  Familiarity information: AMERICAN CHEESE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• AMERICAN CHEESE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Hard smooth-textured cheese; originally made in Cheddar in southwestern England

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Synonyms:

American cheese; Armerican cheddar; cheddar; cheddar cheese

Hypernyms ("American cheese" is a kind of...):

cheese (a solid food prepared from the pressed curd of milk)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "American cheese"):

rat cheese; store cheese (informal names for American cheddar)