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sundae

sundae

55 1.0
Ice cream with sweet sauce, for example fruit or nuts
  • noun
  • /ˈsʌndeɪ/
translation icon : copa de helado
  • They had a Rocky Road ice cream sundae for dessert.
  • ice cream sundae
  • hot fudge sundae
  • fudge sundae

They had a Rocky Road ice cream sundae for dessert.

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Examples

  • Order a hot fudge sundae from room service and watch the Late Late Show.

  • Dan finished the sundae and said to Chris, "I could eat another."

    Fiction book (1990)
  • Most delicious ice cream sundae of all time.

  • I have a sundae... but it needs nuts and cream on it.

  • Enjoying my ice cream sundae, I just thought to myself, God, am I emotionally eating right now?

  • She's eating a big old ice cream sundae.

  • Two chocolate sundaes coming up.

  • "Could I have a small chocolate sundae?" he said to Doreen.

    Fiction book (1996)
  • The children ordered large butterscotch sundaes and polished them off within a few minutes.

    Fiction book (1993)
  • I ordered a large hot fudge sundae topped with nuts and whipped cream.

Synonyms

dessert
vssundae
431 1.0

A sweet dish eaten at the end of a meal

is a particular frozen sweet served with sauces or crunchy toppings
ice cream
vssundae
403 1.0

A cold sweet treat made from milk or cream in different flavors

is served with sweet sauce or toppings rather than plain frozen sweet
ice-cream sundae
vssundae
8 1.0

A dessert of ice cream with sweet toppings like syrup or fruit

is the same idea but expressed in a shorter common form
frozen dessert
vssundae
1 2.7

A sweet cold food made by freezing milk or fruit

is narrower, meaning the topped frozen cream treat specifically

Compounds

A dessert of ice cream with sweet toppings like syrup or fruit

How Indulgent

banana split
10 1.0
sundae
55 1.0
ice cream
403 1.0
sorbet
16 2.7
fruit salad
13 1.0

Surface Forms

sundae singular
sundaes plural

Etymology

The word sundae most likely comes from Sunday, the day of the week, because one popular story says ice-cream sellers first offered the sweet treat on a Sunday, and the name stuck. So a sundae today means a sweet ice-cream dessert with sauce or toppings.