: a sweet flavored frozen food containing cream or butterfat and usually eggs
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Noun
What flavor of ice cream do you like?
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Ellen Cushing, The Atlantic, 18 Aug. 2025
An attached classroom could host ice-cream making workshops.
—Miguel Otárola, Denver Post, 8 Aug. 2025
Taryn White, Forbes.com, 19 Aug. 2025
There are also three desserts on the menu including pane dolce with vanilla ice cream, espresso anise seeds chocolate biscotti and coffee icebox cake.
—Sean Krofssik, Hartford Courant, 17 Aug. 2025
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Adjective
As of this year, more than 19 out of every 20 restaurants in the United States—a category that, notably, includes ice-cream stores, bakeries, and coffee shops—offer at least one spicy item, according to Datassential.
—Ellen Cushing, The Atlantic, 18 Aug. 2025
An attached classroom could host ice-cream making workshops.
—Miguel Otárola, Denver Post, 8 Aug. 2025
Noun
Vallery Lomas honored the resilience of her native New Orleans and the tenth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina with beignet ice cream accompanied by a strawberry cookie.
—Taryn White, Forbes.com, 19 Aug. 2025
There are also three desserts on the menu including pane dolce with vanilla ice cream, espresso anise seeds chocolate biscotti and coffee icebox cake.
—Sean Krofssik, Hartford Courant, 17 Aug. 2025
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“Ice-cream.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ice-cream. Accessed 31 Aug. 2025.
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ice cream
noun
(ˈ)ī-ˈskrēm 
ˈī-ˌskrēm
: a frozen food containing sweetened and flavored cream or butterfat
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