cheese

Reading level: hard

Estimated CEFR level: B2 — Upper-Intermediate

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

  1. noun a solid food prepared from the pressed curd of milk
  2. noun erect or decumbent Old World perennial with axillary clusters of rosy-purple flowers; introduced in United States
  3. verb used in the imperative (get away, or stop it)

Etymology

From Middle English chese, from Anglian Old English ċīese, from Proto-West Germanic *kāsī, borrowed from Latin cāseus. Doublet of queso. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Síes (“cheese”), West Frisian tsiis (“cheese”), Dutch kaas (“cheese”), German Low German Kees (“cheese”), German Käse (“cheese”).

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