cheese

1. 1.

   used in the imperative (get away, or stop it)

   “Cheese it!”

   Broaderdiscontinue
2. 2.

   wind onto a cheese

   “cheese the yarn”

   Broaderspool

Other forms of cheese

plural

cheeses·

past tense

cheesed·

present participle

cheesing·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about cheese

What does cheese mean?

cheese means "a solid food prepared from the pressed curd of milk". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in cheese?

cheese has 1 syllable: cheese. In IPA it is /ˈtʃiz/.

What is another word for cheese?

Close synonyms include tall mallow, high mallow, cheeseflower, Malva sylvestris. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is cheese a common word?

cheese is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with cheese?

1 word rhymes with cheese. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.