CREAM CHEESE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cream cheese mean? 

• CREAM CHEESE (noun)
  The noun CREAM CHEESE has 1 sense:

1. soft unripened cheese made of sweet milk and cream

  Familiarity information: CREAM CHEESE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CREAM CHEESE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Soft unripened cheese made of sweet milk and cream

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Hypernyms ("cream cheese" is a kind of...):

cheese (a solid food prepared from the pressed curd of milk)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "cream cheese"):

double cream (fresh soft French cheese containing at least 60% fat)

mascarpone (soft mild Italian cream cheese)

 Context examples 

There, Fanny, you shall carry that parcel for me; take great care of it: do not let it fall; it is a cream cheese, just like the excellent one we had at dinner.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

For example, an ultra-processed breakfast might consist of a bagel with cream cheese and turkey bacon, while the unprocessed breakfast was oatmeal with bananas, walnuts, and skim milk.

(Heavily processed foods cause overeating and weight gain, National Institutes of Health)

Dinner was soon followed by tea and coffee, a ten miles' drive home allowed no waste of hours; and from the time of their sitting down to table, it was a quick succession of busy nothings till the carriage came to the door, and Mrs. Norris, having fidgeted about, and obtained a few pheasants' eggs and a cream cheese from the housekeeper, and made abundance of civil speeches to Mrs. Rushworth, was ready to lead the way.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Whatever cross-accidents had occurred to intercept the pleasures of her nieces, she had found a morning of complete enjoyment; for the housekeeper, after a great many courtesies on the subject of pheasants, had taken her to the dairy, told her all about their cows, and given her the receipt for a famous cream cheese; and since Julia's leaving them they had been met by the gardener, with whom she had made a most satisfactory acquaintance, for she had set him right as to his grandson's illness, convinced him that it was an ague, and promised him a charm for it; and he, in return, had shewn her all his choicest nursery of plants, and actually presented her with a very curious specimen of heath.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)