goat cheese

English

Alternative forms

• goat's cheese (UK, Australia)
• goat-cheese

Etymology

From Middle English gate cuse.

Noun

goat cheese (countable and uncountable, plural goat cheeses)

1. Any cheese produced using goatmilk.

   Synonyms: chèvre, goat's milk cheese

   • 1947, Ruth McKenney, The Loud Red Patrick, page 70:

     The man who sold it to him said goats were extremely profitable; he swore that Mr. Sokolat would have a nice goat-cheese business in no time at all.

Usage notes

• The form goat's cheese is preferred in the UK and Australia.

Translations

cheese produced by goat milk

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 山羊乳乾酪／山羊乳干酪 (shānyángrǔ gānlào), 山羊奶酪 (shānyáng nǎilào)

• Dutch: geitenkaas (nl) m
• Finnish: vuohenjuusto (fi)
• French: chèvre (fr) m, fromage de chèvre (fr) m
• German: Ziegenkäse (de) m
• Icelandic: geitaostur m
• Italian: formaggio di capra m, formaggio caprino m
• Japanese: シェーブルチーズ (shēburu chīzu)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: geitost m

  Nynorsk: geitost m

• Polish: ser kozi m, kozi ser m
• Portuguese: queijo de cabra (pt) m
• Russian: ко́зий сыр m (kózij syr)
• Spanish: queso de cabra m
• Swedish: getost (sv) c
• Turkish: keçi peyniri
• Ukrainian: ко́зячий сир m (kózjačyj syr)
• Vietnamese: phô mai dê, pho mát dê