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Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. 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.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A confection made by congealing variously flavored cream or custard in a vessel surrounded with a freezing-mixture.
Wiktionary
- n. uncountable A dessert made from frozen sweetened cream or a similar substance, usually flavoured.
- n. countable A snack consisting of ice cream on a stick or in a wafer cone.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. cream, milk, or custard, sweetened, flavored, and frozen.
WordNet 3.0
- n. frozen dessert containing cream and sugar and flavoring
- n. frozen dessert containing cream and sugar and flavoring
Etymologies
- iced + cream (Wiktionary)
Examples
““Barbara,” Mrs. Wilkerson asked, “did your mother give you ice cream money today?””
“The company redesigned the product identity of Jack & Jill ice cream to evoke the “ice cream man” that many of us remember from childhood.”
“I find a dairy, two bus stops away, and although it is usually out of milk by noon, it sells delicious, raisin-studded ice cream packed into a waffle cone by a big morose woman, nine kopeks for as much as she decides to scoop in.”
“Viola had made her own wedding cake, an iced angel food in three graduated layers ornamented with rosebuds and garlands, and hand-churned the ice cream served out of bell-shaped molds.”
“A brilliant example of FEEL marketing at the point of consumption comes from Häagen-Dazs in Europe and Asia.1 Häagen-Dazs cafés are designed as romantic settings where customers can experience the sensual pleasures of premium ice cream and the joys of love.”
“On the second day as our driver, she took dollar bills from our cigar-box cash drawer and bought us all ice cream cones—and a pack of cigarettes for herself.”
“Or perhaps it was because I recalled this man eating an ice cream on a cool morning, his lips sucking busily away like a spider draining a fly, watching me as I drove down Portland Street.”
“At recess, Mrs. Wilkerson asked my brother David if Mother had given us ice cream money that day and, of course, he told her “no.””
“I think of the worst thing that may happen, my cruelest possible punishment, the loss of a Sunday trip to the ice cream kiosk with my father: the ten-minute walk to Theatre Square, where from the frozen, steaming depths of a metal cart a morose woman lifts a waffle cup packed with ice cream called crème brulee, hard as stone.”
“The favorite of the senior bakers was the hot-buttered bread, but the greatest fringe benefit for me was getting to eat the ice cream and homemade chocolates.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘ice cream’.
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Headlines & Newsmakers
frugality, environment, extinction, bible, killer, jazz, cloning, dead, god, moon, global warming, bailout and 340 more...
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IMCO - EU nomenclature
includes words of the "Prodcom list"
abaca, abdominal, abrasive, absorbent, absorber, accelerator, accessory, account book, accumulator, acebutolol, acetaldehyde, acetamide and 4515 more...
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color (multi)
tiara's color lists rebuilt :)
( visual, colors, multi, descriptive, randomness )pastel, rainbow, gemstone, crystals, ore, minerals, elements, neon, northern lights, fur, sunset, sunrise and 98 more...
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food collection
bread, peel, pot, chorizo, Filet, olive, fill, Phyllo, dough, bake, mat, pinot and 988 more...
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vegan
vegan food list of basic vegan food or types of vegan food you've had and liked.
( food, cuisine, eating, health, vegan, vegetarian, animal rights, anti-cruelty, no meat, herbivore, s...tofu, hummus, falafel, cookie, soy, nuts, fruit, burrito, veggie burger, soy cheese, rice, pasta and 52 more...
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The sweetest thing.
A spoonful of sugar makes the medicine go down!
sugary, sweetness, fragrant, cloying, saccharine, honey, luscious, nectar, pudding, pastry, bittersweet, cupcake and 44 more...
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Color Words for Shoes
Vendors can get oddly creative.
amaranth, brindle, iguana, slate black, madder brown, bison, pinecone, seal brown, forest night, burnt orange, monument, beet red and 399 more...
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Two years
Okay, I admit it. I made a list of words my daughter knew when she was two years old.
bat, baba, a, abalone, about, acorn, adrienne, after, again, airplane, alison, all and 694 more...
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savage215's Words
pipe, yankee, knickerbocker, tennis, plasma, magma, volcano, car, truck, television, tv, word and 445 more...
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My Dogs' Words
treat, potty, outside, mommie, mommielina, mommierenee, kisses, yes, no, love, sit, down and 186 more...
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Jacqueline's Words
glittery, horny, amazing, wanderlust, forlorn, lustily, nonchalant, cool, passive, submissive, roundabout, carousel and 558 more...
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Tulip Names I
No rhyme or reason other than that I like the names. :-) For more flower fun, see these lists:
Rose words by mollusque
Rose varieties by mollusque
Tulip Names II: You Know ...abbey dream, abbey road, abodement, abra, abra elite, academician tstisin, acapulco, ace of diamonds, acropolis, ad hoc, adamo, addis and 597 more...
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wordrainbow
A big list of color names for use on wordrainbow.com
emerald, cherry, coffee, cream, almond, gold, kiwi, green, grass green, aquamarine, beet red, sepia and 714 more...
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encyclopedia gustatorica
béchamel, tart, pie, cupcake, roux, jambalaya, étouffé, succulent, plum, pomegranate, peach, apple and 300 more...
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Life's a beach
hot, tired, car, driving, radio, coast range, 101, neahkahnie mountain, gravel, crunching, shoes off, curtains drawn and 41 more...
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Forks
Only the ones used for eating.
dinner, runcible, crab, salad, beef, meat, olive, fish, knork, oyster, pastry, pickle and 44 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for ice cream.
reesetee What a glaring gap in Wordieness! Someone must start one.
Okay, I'll do it.... Aug 27, 2009
john Funny that there isn't a list of Ben & Jerry's flavors. Like, for instance, AmeriCone Dream. Aug 27, 2009