ice cream cone
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- noun
- /aɪs krim koʊn/
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cono de helado
- I enjoyed a delicious cherry ice cream cone on a hot summer day.
We got these ice cream cones that were bigger than my face and they're here.
- We got these ice cream cones that were bigger than my face and they're here.
- So get yourself a cupcake tin like this one, open up your ice cream cones and you just put them in here like little cupcakes.
- When you have an ice cream cone, the ice cream on the inside is not part of the cone.
- And if I got a hit, we would all get a soft ice cream cone on the way home.
- And then we're going to down some lactate and crush some ice cream cones.
- Once Upon a time, the ice cream cones were bigger, the summers were longer, and life was easier.
- And also to the cows and the ancient pastures and the white milk inside our heads like church Spires and ice cream cones.
Examples
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Now you have to go get us an ice cream cone.
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We went to the movies and had ice-cream cones, and then we went to see Daddy.
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Told you it was date night and we are going to have ice cream cones later on.
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- I think we should get another ice cream cone.
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Can we have an ice cream cone?
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Are the ice cream cones ready?
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An ice cream cone, please.
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I'll buy you an ice cream cone.
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Where did that giant ice cream cone come from?
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You're holding an ice cream cone.
Synonyms
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A thin, crisp shell you hold to eat ice cream
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly and transparently derived from combining ice cream (frozen cream) with cone (a cone-shaped container), so the overall concept is exactly what the parts describe. This simple noun–noun composition is cross-linguistically common (e.g., Spanish 'cono de helado') and follows regular compounding patterns, making it readily inferable by a B1 learner who knows the constituent words.
Etymology
The noun ice cream cone may come from a big fair in 1904, when a man who sold waffles rolled a warm waffle into a cone to hold ice cream because there were no cups. That clear picture, ice cream in a baked cone, is why the phrase now means 'a cone-shaped wafer used to hold ice cream'.