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CHEDDAR
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Hard smooth-textured cheese; originally made in Cheddar in southwestern England
Synonyms:
American cheese; Armerican cheddar; cheddar; cheddar cheese
Classified under:
Nouns denoting foods and drinks
Hypernyms ("cheddar" is a kind of...):
cheese (a solid food prepared from the pressed curd of milk)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "cheddar"):
rat cheese; store cheese (informal names for American cheddar)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A village in southwestern England where cheddar cheese was first made
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Instance hypernyms:
hamlet; village (a settlement smaller than a town)
Holonyms ("Cheddar" is a part of...):
England (a division of the United Kingdom)
