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American cheese

American cheese noun: a common processed cheese, yellow or white in color and mild in flavor, with a medium-firm consistency.

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Noun

American cheese (countable and uncountable, plural American cheeses)

  1. A common processed cheese, yellow or white in color and mild in flavor, with a medium-firm consistency.
    • Near-synonyms: rat-trap cheese, rat cheese, government cheese
    • Many of you other brothers can't deny that American cheese on white bread with yellow mustard is a guilty pleasure that reminds us of our childhood.
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see American, cheese: any cheese made in America.
    • The opinions on importation of American wheat and steel did not seem as negative as those against importation of American cheese and beer.
    • After all, I’ve spent 15 years following the U.S. cheese scene, first as a lone blogger and now as an author of two cheese books, so I’ve put in my time as a turophile. I don’t let anyone conflate “American cheese” with Kraft Singles—not when there is so much good craft cheese being made stateside....2026 February 25, Tenaya Darlington, “American Whey: With artisan cheesemakers in every corner of the country, there’s never been a better time to be a cheese lover in the U.S.”, in Food & Wine

Examples of American cheese in a sentence

  • The end result of such efforts is something akin to processed American cheese: smooth, odor-free and entirely without taste.1977 August 13, Paula Bennet, “By Her Own Admission — Soap for Straights”, in Gay Community News, volume 5, number 6, page 9:
  • I don’t let anyone conflate “American cheese” with Kraft Singles—not when there is so much good craft cheese being made stateside.2026 February 25, Tenaya Darlington, “American Whey: With artisan cheesemakers in every corner of the country, there’s never been a better...

Synonyms of American cheese

Forms of American cheese

pluralAmerican cheeses

Questions about American cheese

What does American cheese mean?
American cheese means a common processed cheese, yellow or white in color and mild in flavor, with a medium-firm consistency.
How do you use American cheese in a sentence?
The end result of such efforts is something akin to processed American cheese: smooth, odor-free and entirely without taste.
What part of speech is American cheese?
American cheese is a noun.
What is the plural of American cheese?
The plural of American cheese is American cheeses.

Words near American cheese in the dictionary

  1. American centaury
  2. American Century
  3. American chaffseed
  4. American chameleon
  5. American chameleons
  6. American cheese
  7. American cheeses
  8. American cheetah
  9. American chestnut
  10. American chestnuts
  11. American chop suey

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