cheese vs Swiss cheese

Swiss cheese vs cheese

cheese and Swiss cheese both are nouns.

cheese is a verb but Swiss cheese is not a verb.

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

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

cheese: a solid food prepared from the pressed curd of milk
Swiss cheese: hard pale yellow cheese with many holes from Switzerland

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, American cheese, 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, Velveeta.

cheese (noun)	Swiss cheese (noun)
a solid food prepared from the pressed curd of milk	hard pale yellow cheese with many holes from Switzerland
erect or decumbent Old World perennial with axillary clusters of rosy-purple flowers; introduced in United States

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

Difference between cheese and Swiss cheese

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