ice-cream soda
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1.0
- noun
- /ˈaɪsˌkrim ˈsoʊdə/
:
soda con helado
- After a long day, I enjoyed a delicious ice-cream soda topped with whipped cream.
- chocolate ice-cream soda
Examples
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During the hot summer afternoon, we shared a large ice-cream soda at the local diner.
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We'll have three chocolate ice-cream sodas.
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There, I was having an ice cream soda after school.
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"But how about an ice cream soda?
Fiction book (1991) -
I bet you mixed up a fine ice cream soda.
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The kid talked up a storm through his ice cream soda and all the way home.
Fiction book (2001) -
Sat down with a pretty girl and had an ice cream soda.
Fiction book (1992) -
Then I went over to the drugstore and got an ice cream soda.
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I went to get an ice-cream soda.
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Things are looking so good, I might even treat you to an ice-cream soda.
Synonyms
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3.3
A drink of soda with a scoop of ice cream
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2.9
A cold drink of root beer with a scoop of ice cream
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2.0
A cold drink with ice cream floating in soda
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Morphology
ice-cream + soda
The meaning is directly and transparently derived from combining 'ice-cream' (frozen sweet dessert) with 'soda' (carbonated drink): it denotes a soda containing or served with ice cream. This simple compositional compound follows common noun+noun naming patterns and is likely immediately understandable to a B1 learner who knows the constituent words.
Etymology
Ice-cream soda comes from the clear image of a scoop of ice-cream floating in fizzy soda at old soda counters. People would drop a scoop into a sweet, bubbly drink so the cream sat on top, and that's why the name means 'a cold drink with ice cream in a fizzy drink'.