"grilled cheese" meaning in English

See grilled cheese in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: grilled cheeses [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun|head=grilled cheese}} grilled cheese (plural grilled cheeses)
  1. (Canada, US) A cheese sandwich typically toasted or fried in butter. Wikipedia link: grilled cheese Tags: Canada, US Categories (topical): Sandwiches Synonyms (grilled cheese sandwich): cheese toastie, snackwich, grilled cheese sandwich, toasted cheese Translations (toasted cheese sandwich): grillattu juustovoileipä (Finnish), tost [masculine] (Polish), emparedado de queso fundido [masculine] (Spanish), tost (Turkish), געבראָטענע קעז־שניטקע (gebrotene kez-shnitke) [feminine] (Yiddish), געפּרעגלטע קעז־שניטקע (gepreglte kez-shnitke) [feminine] (Yiddish)

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for grilled cheese meaning in English (4.0kB)

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "grilled cheeses",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "head": "grilled cheese"
      },
      "expansion": "grilled cheese (plural grilled cheeses)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "American English",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Canadian English",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with topic categories using raw markup",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with topic categories using raw markup",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys",
          "parents": [
            "Terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Sandwiches",
          "orig": "en:Sandwiches",
          "parents": [
            "Foods",
            "Eating",
            "Food and drink",
            "Human behaviour",
            "All topics",
            "Human",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1970, “Time”, in Time Inc., volume 96, numbers 1-9, page 43",
          "text": "Third, when you go to lunch today, instead of ordering a steak, ask for a grilled cheese.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1973 September, Anne Crawford and Jack Keever, “John Connally Between the Acts”, in Texas Monthly, ISSN 0148-7736, Volume 1, Issue 8 (September, 1973), page 44",
          "text": "A man of impeccable class, he also buys ready-made suits on sale and would as soon have grilled cheese and iced tea as coq au vin."
        },
        {
          "ref": "a. 2000, C. Bard Cole, “Young Hemingways”, in Briefly told lives, Macmillan, published 2000, page 120",
          "text": "We sat out among the sidewalk tables, and I had a grilled cheese with bacon.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2001, Terry Bisson, The Pickup Artist, Macmillan, published 2002, page 23",
          "text": "I passed on the healthy stuff and had a grilled cheese.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2008 March 2, Danny Smith, “Play It Again”, in Family Guy, season 6 episode 10, 14:44-14:50",
          "text": "Stewie: Does anybody wanna buy my shirt? [pause] I'll trade you my shirt for a grilled cheese!",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2009 December, in Dwell, ISSN 1530-5309, Volume 10, Number 2 (December 2009/January 2010), page 28",
          "text": "He lunched on grilled cheese in Toronto and sashimi in Tokyo and had the chance to stick his finger in a true-to-life Dutch dike in Almere, Holland."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A cheese sandwich typically toasted or fried in butter."
      ],
      "id": "en-grilled_cheese-en-noun-PqNGrA-R",
      "links": [
        [
          "Canada",
          "Canada"
        ],
        [
          "US",
          "American English"
        ],
        [
          "toasted",
          "toasted"
        ],
        [
          "fried",
          "fried"
        ],
        [
          "butter",
          "butter"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Canada, US) A cheese sandwich typically toasted or fried in butter."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "sense": "grilled cheese sandwich",
          "word": "cheese toastie"
        },
        {
          "sense": "grilled cheese sandwich",
          "word": "snackwich"
        },
        {
          "sense": "grilled cheese sandwich",
          "word": "grilled cheese sandwich"
        },
        {
          "sense": "grilled cheese sandwich",
          "word": "toasted cheese"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Canada",
        "US"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "toasted cheese sandwich",
          "word": "grillattu juustovoileipä"
        },
        {
          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "toasted cheese sandwich",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "tost"
        },
        {
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "toasted cheese sandwich",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "emparedado de queso fundido"
        },
        {
          "code": "tr",
          "lang": "Turkish",
          "sense": "toasted cheese sandwich",
          "word": "tost"
        },
        {
          "code": "yi",
          "lang": "Yiddish",
          "roman": "gebrotene kez-shnitke",
          "sense": "toasted cheese sandwich",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "געבראָטענע קעז־שניטקע"
        },
        {
          "code": "yi",
          "lang": "Yiddish",
          "roman": "gepreglte kez-shnitke",
          "sense": "toasted cheese sandwich",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "געפּרעגלטע קעז־שניטקע"
        }
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "grilled cheese"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "grilled cheese"
}
{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "grilled cheeses",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "head": "grilled cheese"
      },
      "expansion": "grilled cheese (plural grilled cheeses)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "American English",
        "Canadian English",
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English entries with topic categories using raw markup",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "en:Sandwiches"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1970, “Time”, in Time Inc., volume 96, numbers 1-9, page 43",
          "text": "Third, when you go to lunch today, instead of ordering a steak, ask for a grilled cheese.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1973 September, Anne Crawford and Jack Keever, “John Connally Between the Acts”, in Texas Monthly, ISSN 0148-7736, Volume 1, Issue 8 (September, 1973), page 44",
          "text": "A man of impeccable class, he also buys ready-made suits on sale and would as soon have grilled cheese and iced tea as coq au vin."
        },
        {
          "ref": "a. 2000, C. Bard Cole, “Young Hemingways”, in Briefly told lives, Macmillan, published 2000, page 120",
          "text": "We sat out among the sidewalk tables, and I had a grilled cheese with bacon.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2001, Terry Bisson, The Pickup Artist, Macmillan, published 2002, page 23",
          "text": "I passed on the healthy stuff and had a grilled cheese.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2008 March 2, Danny Smith, “Play It Again”, in Family Guy, season 6 episode 10, 14:44-14:50",
          "text": "Stewie: Does anybody wanna buy my shirt? [pause] I'll trade you my shirt for a grilled cheese!",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2009 December, in Dwell, ISSN 1530-5309, Volume 10, Number 2 (December 2009/January 2010), page 28",
          "text": "He lunched on grilled cheese in Toronto and sashimi in Tokyo and had the chance to stick his finger in a true-to-life Dutch dike in Almere, Holland."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A cheese sandwich typically toasted or fried in butter."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Canada",
          "Canada"
        ],
        [
          "US",
          "American English"
        ],
        [
          "toasted",
          "toasted"
        ],
        [
          "fried",
          "fried"
        ],
        [
          "butter",
          "butter"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Canada, US) A cheese sandwich typically toasted or fried in butter."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Canada",
        "US"
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "grilled cheese"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "sense": "grilled cheese sandwich",
      "word": "cheese toastie"
    },
    {
      "sense": "grilled cheese sandwich",
      "word": "snackwich"
    },
    {
      "sense": "grilled cheese sandwich",
      "word": "grilled cheese sandwich"
    },
    {
      "sense": "grilled cheese sandwich",
      "word": "toasted cheese"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "toasted cheese sandwich",
      "word": "grillattu juustovoileipä"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "toasted cheese sandwich",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "tost"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "toasted cheese sandwich",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "emparedado de queso fundido"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "toasted cheese sandwich",
      "word": "tost"
    },
    {
      "code": "yi",
      "lang": "Yiddish",
      "roman": "gebrotene kez-shnitke",
      "sense": "toasted cheese sandwich",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "געבראָטענע קעז־שניטקע"
    },
    {
      "code": "yi",
      "lang": "Yiddish",
      "roman": "gepreglte kez-shnitke",
      "sense": "toasted cheese sandwich",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "געפּרעגלטע קעז־שניטקע"
    }
  ],
  "word": "grilled cheese"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-01 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-04-21 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.