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 fromfrozen sweetened cream or a similar substance, usuallyflavoured . - 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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john commented on the word ice cream
Funny that there isn't a list of Ben & Jerry's flavors. Like, for instance, AmeriCone Dream.
August 27, 2009
reesetee commented on the word ice cream
What a glaring gap in Wordieness! Someone must start one.
Okay, I'll do it....
August 27, 2009