Other forms: cheeses
Cheese is a food made from milk, pressed and often aged. Grated cheese, a cheese board, cheese on toast.
It is made by curdling milk with rennet or acid, draining the whey and pressing the curd, and everything after that — time, mould, washing, temperature — is what makes the hundreds of kinds. Britain, France and Italy each claim the most varieties. Note say cheese, said to make people smile at a camera; hard cheese, British for bad luck; and that cheese came into English from Latin before the Anglo-Saxons left the continent.
1nouncheeseA food made from milk, pressed and often aged.
“He made a sandwich with ham, tomato and a slice of cheese.”
cheese is a dairy food.
Old English cese came from Latin caseus, borrowed by the Germanic tribes while still on the continent. Dutch kaas and German Kase are the same borrowing, and Spanish queso is the same Latin word inherited.
Middle English
chese
English, today
cheese
From Middle English chese. From Middle English chese, from Anglian Old English ċēse, from Proto-West Germanic kāsī, borrowed from Latin cāseus. a doublet of queso. Cognate with stq Síes (“cheese”), West Frisian tsiis (“cheese”), Dutch kaas (“cheese”), German Low German Kees (“cheese”), German Käse (“cheese”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA