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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A mild, yellow Dutch cheese, pressed into balls and usually covered with red wax.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • A mild Dutch pressed cheese of yellow color and fine flavor, made in balls weighing three or four pounds, and usually colored crimson outside; -- so called from the village of Edam, near Amsterdam. Also, cheese of the same type, wherever made.

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  • proper noun A town in Holland
  • proper noun A type of cheese, see Edam cheese

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun mild yellow Dutch cheese made in balls encased in a red covering

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[After Edam, a town in the western Netherlands.]

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Literally "the dam on the river Ye," and the river name literally means "river;" see ea.

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