: 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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Mohammed R. Mhawish, New Yorker, 11 Nov. 2025
For the new dinner service, diners might try tiramisu made with Four Barrel espresso or a brown-butter chocolate-chip ice-cream sandwich – or throw the diet completely out the window with decadent Basque cheesecake.
—Kate Bradshaw, Mercury News, 29 Oct. 2025
Liz Hoffman, semafor.com, 7 Nov. 2025
Leo Easterwood, a KCK resident, took his grandkids to get ice cream at Hey Sugar in Strawberry Hill after lunchtime.
—Kansas City Star, 7 Nov. 2025
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Adjective
Shamali and her family lived in Al-Jundi al-Majhoul Tower—a fourteen-story building that sat across from an ice-cream shop and a sports store and was home to hundreds of residents.
—Mohammed R. Mhawish, New Yorker, 11 Nov. 2025
For the new dinner service, diners might try tiramisu made with Four Barrel espresso or a brown-butter chocolate-chip ice-cream sandwich – or throw the diet completely out the window with decadent Basque cheesecake.
—Kate Bradshaw, Mercury News, 29 Oct. 2025
Noun
Ben & Jerry’s owner is trying to oust the head of the ice cream maker’s board after investigating its charitable donations to pro-Palestinian causes.
—Liz Hoffman, semafor.com, 7 Nov. 2025
Leo Easterwood, a KCK resident, took his grandkids to get ice cream at Hey Sugar in Strawberry Hill after lunchtime.
—Kansas City Star, 7 Nov. 2025
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“Ice-cream.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ice-cream. Accessed 13 Nov. 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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