: 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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Emma Burleigh, Fortune, 2 June 2026
Last week, on Capitol Hill, amid a sweltering late-spring heat wave, the Air-Conditioning, Heating, and Refrigeration Institute set up food trucks, handing out ice-cream sandwiches.
—Antonia Hitchens, New Yorker, 28 May 2026
Olivia Wakim, AJC.com, 6 June 2026
Popular destinations like Nantucket and the villages of the Hamptons draw hordes of visitors in summer, making restaurants hard to get into and lines for ice cream stretch down the block.
—Kira Turnbull, Travel + Leisure, 6 June 2026
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Adjective
Sundae School Homemade Ice Cream, an ice-cream shop in the coastal town of Cape Cod, received hundreds of applications from teens for just 50 open summer jobs, the WSJ reported.
—Emma Burleigh, Fortune, 2 June 2026
Last week, on Capitol Hill, amid a sweltering late-spring heat wave, the Air-Conditioning, Heating, and Refrigeration Institute set up food trucks, handing out ice-cream sandwiches.
—Antonia Hitchens, New Yorker, 28 May 2026
Noun
There will be 13 pop-ups in total with concepts offering bicycle and walking tours, vintage clothes, gifts and paper goods, juice, macaroons, ice cream and pastries.
—Olivia Wakim, AJC.com, 6 June 2026
Popular destinations like Nantucket and the villages of the Hamptons draw hordes of visitors in summer, making restaurants hard to get into and lines for ice cream stretch down the block.
—Kira Turnbull, Travel + Leisure, 6 June 2026
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“Ice-cream.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ice-cream. Accessed 9 Jun. 2026.
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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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