STILTON

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Stilton mean? 

• STILTON (noun)
  The noun STILTON has 1 sense:

1. English blue cheese

  Familiarity information: STILTON used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• STILTON (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

English blue cheese

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Hypernyms ("Stilton" is a kind of...):

bleu; blue cheese (cheese containing a blue mold)

 Context examples 

Mr. Elton was still talking, still engaged in some interesting detail; and Emma experienced some disappointment when she found that he was only giving his fair companion an account of the yesterday's party at his friend Cole's, and that she was come in herself for the Stilton cheese, the north Wiltshire, the butter, the celery, the beet-root, and all the dessert.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)