ice cream
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- noun
- /aɪs krim/
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- For dessert, we ordered a big bowl of ice cream topped with chocolate sauce.
- chocolate ice cream
- vanilla ice cream
- ice cream cone
I'm ordering like, you know, ice cream, chips, chips.
- I'm ordering like, you know, ice cream, chips, chips.
- All right, regular ice cream, nothing to see here.
- It's actually not premium ice cream, it's French ice cream.
- So I'm not eating ice cream at all these days.
- and, you know, use my free ice cream and my free ice cream cakes.
- One of them now sells ice cream and the other passed away.
- Same thing with my friend who started an ice cream store here in Phoenix, AZ.
Examples
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"Now then, Henry, you must save room for ice cream," Hammond said, pushing back from the table.
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- Let's go get some ice cream.
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So apparently I had to try out this ice cream in town.
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I want to go get ice cream.
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Shall we make ice cream?
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I see you forgot the ice cream again.
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So, you wanna split some pie and ice cream with me or what?
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Winter didn't kill us and the ice cream is back.
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We don't sell ice cream here.
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Ahem, sergeant, since we're here and all, do you think Fred and I could get some ice cream?
Synonyms
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Ice cream with sweet sauce, for example fruit or nuts
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A creamy Italian frozen dessert thicker than ice cream
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A cold, soft sweet dessert like ice cream made from milk with a slightly sour taste
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A frozen sweet made from fruit juice or crushed fruit without milk, with a soft, slushy texture
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A sweet frozen dessert made from milk and cream with vanilla flavor
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A dessert of ice cream with sweet toppings like syrup or fruit
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A cold creamy dessert made with chocolate
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A sweet frozen dessert made from fruit juice, sugar, and sometimes milk or egg white
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A cold sweet dessert made from milk and strawberries, often with small fruit pieces
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A sweet cold food made by freezing milk or fruit
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A cold sweet dessert like ice cream made with eggs and cream
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A frozen dessert made from milk like ice cream but with less fat
A cold creamy dessert with small pieces of chocolate
A bar of vanilla ice cream covered in chocolate
A soft frozen dessert that comes from a machine, often in a cone
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a sweet frozen dessert made from cream' is directly and transparently derivable from 'ice' (frozen) + 'cream' (the milk fat), i.e., frozen cream. This modifier+head compound follows a common compositional pattern and is cross-linguistically comparable, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily understand the MWE.
Etymology
Ice cream comes from the very literal idea of cold ice plus rich cream: people made a treat by freezing sweet cream with ice, so the name simply describes the food. That's why ice cream means 'a sweet frozen dessert' today.