cheese vs American cheese

American cheese vs cheese

cheese and American cheese both are nouns.

cheese is a verb but American cheese is not a verb.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
cheese	Yes	No	Yes	No
American cheese	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, American cheese is a hyponym of cheese; that is, American cheese is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than cheese:

cheese: a solid food prepared from the pressed curd of milk
American cheese: hard smooth-textured cheese; originally made in Cheddar in southwestern England

Other hyponyms of cheese include cream cheese, triple cream, triple creme, cottage cheese, farm cheese, farmer's cheese, pot cheese, process cheese, processed cheese, bleu, blue cheese, Brie, brick cheese, Camembert, Armerican cheddar, cheddar, cheddar cheese, Cheshire cheese, double Gloucester, Edam, chevre, goat cheese, Gouda, Gouda cheese, grated cheese, hand cheese, Liederkranz, Limburger, mozzarella, Muenster, Parmesan, quark, quark cheese, ricotta, string cheese, Swiss cheese, Velveeta.

cheese (noun)	American cheese (noun)
a solid food prepared from the pressed curd of milk	hard smooth-textured cheese; originally made in Cheddar in southwestern England
erect or decumbent Old World perennial with axillary clusters of rosy-purple flowers; introduced in United States

cheese (verb)	American cheese (verb)
wind onto a cheese
used in the imperative (get away, or stop it)

Difference between cheese and American cheese

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