cheesemaker

American  

[cheez-mey-ker] / ˈtʃizˌmeɪ kər /

Or cheese maker

noun

1. a person, company, or apparatus that makes cheese.

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Other Word Forms

• cheese making noun
• cheesemaking noun

Etymology

Origin of cheesemaker

First recorded in 1865–70; cheese ¹ + maker

Example Sentences

Welsh cheesemaker Lewis Relfe struck up a relationship with Ameila Henderson, from Virginia, USA, while playing the Friday the 13th horror video game in 2017.

From BBC • Jan. 20, 2026

"First of all, we're looking at the visual appearance of the cheese: how it looks like from the inside and outside," Polish cheesemaker Kuba Maziarczyk, one of the judges in the final, told AFP.

From Barron's • Nov. 13, 2025

“The tight hills mean that farms can’t get very big, and so neither have most of the cheesemakers,” said Andy Hatch, Uplands’s owner and cheesemaker.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 3, 2025

“It is ridiculous,” says fellow cheesemaker Tom Calver, whose cheddar was part of the stolen consignment.

From BBC • Nov. 10, 2024

Tell them how the cheesemaker separates sweet milk into curd and whey.

From Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Household Management by Ontario. Ministry of Education