vanilla ice cream
- noun
- /vəˈnɪlə aɪs kriːm/
- My favorite dessert is a slice of pie with a scoop of vanilla ice cream on top.
- a scoop of vanilla ice cream
- vanilla ice cream cone
- a cup of vanilla ice cream
So what he would do is he would have them put an extra giant scoop of vanilla ice cream on top.
- So what he would do is he would have them put an extra giant scoop of vanilla ice cream on top.
- So basically it's like half vanilla ice cream with like a chocolate shell and then a cherry in the middle of it.
- It's flavoring of reflectivity like vanilla ice cream.
- It's actually a couple of things that are like Mayo, milk, vanilla ice cream, sour cream.
Examples
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We've got dessert, banana bread with caramel and vanilla ice cream homemade from scratch.
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The dessert that night was strawberries with a Cointreau-flavored vanilla ice cream made locally at Corfe Castle.
Academic text (1991) -
Now we have the vanilla ice cream.
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And vanilla ice cream on the side.
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I'd like some vanilla ice cream, something to cut it up a little bit.
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You want a chocolate soda with vanilla ice cream.
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But all I want is a chocolate soda with some vanilla ice cream in it.
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For dessert, Vicki covered the cake with vanilla ice cream.
Fiction book (1991) -
Tasty shortcake covered with blackberries from the farm and then covered with delicious vanilla ice cream.
Blog text (23) -
Just then, Mom brought us bowls of warm peach cobbler topped with vanilla ice cream.
Fiction book (2000)
Synonyms
A cold sweet treat made from milk or cream in different flavors
A sweet cold food made by freezing milk or fruit
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 phrase is compositionally built: 'ice cream' denotes a frozen dairy dessert (cream made frozen) and 'vanilla' simply specifies the flavor. A B1 learner who knows 'vanilla', 'ice' and 'cream' can readily infer 'vanilla ice cream' as ice cream flavored with vanilla; this structure is common cross-linguistically and follows standard noun-modifier composition.
Etymology
Vanilla ice cream comes from adding flavor made from a small brown vanilla bean to frozen cream and milk. So vanilla ice cream means a sweet frozen food made with vanilla flavor.