cheese
noun
tʃiːz 
tʃiːz 
1 [uncountable, countable] a type of food made from milk that can be either soft or hard and is usually white or yellow in colour; a particular type of this foodCheddar cheesegoat's cheese (= made from the milk of a goat )a cheese sandwich/salada chunk/piece/slice of cheesea selection of French cheesesa cheese knife (= a knife with a special curved blade with two points on the end, used for cutting and picking up pieces of cheese) see also American cheese, blue cheese, cauliflower cheese, cottage cheese, cream cheese, macaroni cheese2 cheese! what you ask somebody to say before you take their photograph Idioms
see a big cheese at big adjective, chalk and cheese at chalk noun, hard cheese at hard adjective