Definitions

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

  • noun A smooth, sweet, cold food prepared from a frozen mixture of milk products and flavorings, containing a minimum of 10 percent milk fat and eaten as a snack or dessert.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A confection made by congealing variously flavored cream or custard in a vessel surrounded with a freezing-mixture.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun uncountable A dessert made from frozen sweetened cream or a similar substance, usually flavoured.
  • noun countable A snack consisting of ice cream on a stick or in a wafer cone.

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

  • noun frozen dessert containing cream and sugar and flavoring
  • noun frozen dessert containing cream and sugar and flavoring

Etymologies

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iced + cream

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  • Funny that there isn't a list of Ben & Jerry's flavors. Like, for instance, AmeriCone Dream.

    August 27, 2009

  • What a glaring gap in Wordieness! Someone must start one.

    Okay, I'll do it....

    August 27, 2009