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

After finishing the school year in the Middle East, Mohammed was supposed to return to Tampa and apprentice in the family’s ice cream business.

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World Liberty’s “dealing with Binance is like selling ice cream and dealing with the milk distributor,” she said.

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Roswell residents know how to have fun, and the city hosts all kinds of annual festivals ranging from a summertime ice cream social and monarch butterfly celebration to outdoor movies.

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The co-founders said Unilever and its ice cream arm Magnum, which is being spun off from its parent company, had unlawfully blocked their company from "honouring its social mission".

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But those nerves quickly went away at the start of term, when ice creams and alpacas visited to welcome the children into a new school year.

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