- a hard, smooth-textured cheese, made usually from the whole milk of cows and varying in color from white to deep yellow and in flavor from mild to sharp as it ages.
- money: The monthly grand prize is $200, and the yearly grand prize is $1,000—that's a lot of cheddar.
- any of several types of smooth hard yellow or whitish cheese
- a village in SW England, in N Somerset: situated near Cheddar Gorge, a pass through the Mendip Hills renowned for its stalactitic caverns and rare limestone flora. Pop: 4796 (2001)