ice-cream

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adjective

ˌīs-ˈkrēm 

ˈīs-ˌkrēm

: of a color similar to that of vanilla ice cream

ice cream

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noun

ˌīs-ˈkrēm 

ˈīs-ˌkrēm

: a sweet flavored frozen food containing cream or butterfat and usually eggs

Examples of ice-cream in a Sentence

Noun

What flavor of ice cream do you like?

Recent Examples on the Web

Adjective

City officials ordered ice-cream parlors to stop making ice cream in order to conserve the district’s ice supplies. — Hana Kiros, The Atlantic, 3 July 2026

There's also casual Italian fare at Bottega; castaway lunches at Drift, set on the uninhabited island of Jehunuhura; and Scoops for smoothies and free ice-cream cones. — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 29 June 2026

Noun

The story opens with Carvel towing a trailer of ice cream through Hartsdale, New York, on an unseasonably hot weekend in late May. — Nathan King, airmail.news, 9 July 2026

Citrus and dates apparently couldn’t compete with bay leaf-stracciatella ice cream. — Bill Addison, Los Angeles Times, 9 July 2026

Word History

First Known Use

Adjective

1874, in the meaning defined above

Noun

1743, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for ice-cream

• academe
• cherubim
• elohim
• episteme
• seraphim
• abeam
• airstream
• bloodstream
• daydream
• downstream
• esteem
• extreme

Kids Definition

ice cream

noun

(ˈ)ī-ˈskrēm 

ˈī-ˌskrēm

: a frozen food containing sweetened and flavored cream or butterfat