ice cream

noun

1. a frozen food containing cream or milk and butterfat, sugar, flavoring, and sometimes eggs.

ice cream

noun

1. a kind of sweetened frozen liquid, properly made from cream and egg yolks but often made from milk or a custard base, flavoured in various ways

Word History and Origins

Origin of ice cream¹

First recorded in 1735–45

Example Sentences

In September of last year, Delish partnered with Enlightened, a keto-friendly ice cream company, to launch two flavors.

From Digiday

Authorities in Moscow are offering free ice cream just to get people to come in and take their shot.

From Popular-Science

Serve with a dollop of softly whipped cream and berries or a scoop of vanilla ice cream.

From Washington Post

A dietitian I was working with suggested, reasonably, that I loosen those self-imposed rules and focus on eating whatever I actually wanted to eat that wouldn’t do harm, even if that was a pint of ice cream.

From Eater

We are in a very fortunate position to have a lot of eyes on us at any given moment, and we’re across the street from the beach, and people come pick up ice cream and go down to the beach, or pick up food.

From Eater

But Huckabee (akin to Elizabeth Warren on the left) is like an ice cream sundae.

From The Daily Beast

Serve with the warm sauce and your choice of ice cream, whipped cream, or yogurt.

From The Daily Beast

With a 1¾-inch ice cream scoop (or two spoons), scoop round balls of dough onto the prepared sheet pans.

From The Daily Beast

He would be Cory Booker, who has promised to lead a campaign jog to a local ice cream parlor.

From The Daily Beast

As Maria set out to begin another day in the ice cream truck, Chubby would roll alongside her for part of the route.

From The Daily Beast

They had been permitted to sit up till after the ice-cream, which naturally marked the limit of human indulgence.

From Project Gutenberg

At the old Rosewater dances we never had anything but cake and lemonade—ice-cream in very hot weather.

From Project Gutenberg

As he sat there young Jim Hands drove up with his girl, alighted, and went into the ice-cream parlor for refreshment.

From Project Gutenberg

He drew forth from the package, which proved to be a box filled with chopped ice, a small brick of ice-cream.

From Project Gutenberg

We had sandwiches and chicken salad and olives and three kinds of cake and ice cream for refreshments.

From Project Gutenberg

Related Words

• frozen yogurt
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