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Cheshire1 British & World English

a county of west central England; county town, Chester

Cheshire2 British & World English

a kind of firm crumbly cheese, originally made in Cheshire

Cheshire, Leonard British & World English

(1917–92), British airman and philanthropist; full name Geoffrey Leonard Cheshire. A bomber pilot in the Second World War, he later founded the Cheshire Foundation Homes for disabled and incurably sick people

Cheshire cat British & World English

a cat depicted with a broad fixed grin, as popularized through Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865)

grin like a Cheshire cat in Cheshire cat British & World English

have a broad fixed smile on one’s face

Geoffrey Leonard Cheshire in Cheshire, Leonard British & World English

(1917–92), British airman and philanthropist; full name Geoffrey Leonard Cheshire. A bomber pilot in the Second World War, he later founded the Cheshire Foundation Homes for disabled and incurably sick people