ICE CREAM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does ice cream mean? 

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

1. frozen dessert containing cream and sugar and flavoring

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• ICE CREAM (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Frozen dessert containing cream and sugar and flavoring

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Synonyms:

ice cream; icecream

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

frozen dessert (any of various desserts prepared by freezing)

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

chocolate ice cream (ice cream flavored with chocolate)

Neapolitan ice cream (a block of ice cream with 3 or 4 layers of different colors and flavors)

peach ice cream (ice cream flavored with fresh peaches)

strawberry ice cream (ice cream flavored with fresh strawberries)

tutti-frutti (ice cream containing chopped candied fruits)

vanilla ice cream (ice cream flavored with vanilla extract)

 Context examples 

But people tend to react negatively to these unfamiliar, chemical sounding names when they appear on an ice cream label, assuming these must be artificial ingredients.

(Freeze-Dried Strawberries and Ice Cream Make for a Very Stable Relationship, Agricultural Research Service)

"It's a pity Laurie isn't here to help us," began Jo, as they sat down to ice cream and salad for the second time in two days.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

The test meal was equivalent to someone having a small hamburger, small fries, and a small ice cream shake with fruit, according to the scientists.

(Humans More Unique than Expected When It Comes to Digesting Fatty Meals, U.S. Department of Agriculture)

Dr Worthington, a Fellow of St John’s College, University of Cambridge, said: “Ea tricks humanity by spreading fake news. He tells the Babylonian Noah, known as Uta–napishti, to promise his people that food will rain from the sky if they help him build the ark. What the people don’t realise is that Ea’s nine-line message is a trick: it is a sequence of sounds that can be understood in radically different ways, like English ‘ice cream’ and ‘I scream’.###!!!###

(‘Trickster god’ used fake news in Babylonian Noah story, University of Cambridge)

That translates to adding about 0.7 ounces for a 1-quart home ice cream maker.

(Freeze-Dried Strawberries and Ice Cream Make for a Very Stable Relationship, Agricultural Research Service)

Poor dear, just wait till I make my fortune, and you shall revel in carriages and ice cream and high-heeled slippers, and posies, and red-headed boys to dance with.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

It can happen in either or both the ice cream maker or the freezer, when temperatures change.

(Freeze-Dried Strawberries and Ice Cream Make for a Very Stable Relationship, Agricultural Research Service)

We must have cold tongue and chicken, French chocolate and ice cream, besides.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Without a stabilizer, ice cream—home-made or commercial—can become unpleasantly crunchy with the growth of large ice crystals.

(Freeze-Dried Strawberries and Ice Cream Make for a Very Stable Relationship, Agricultural Research Service)

There was ice cream, actually two dishes of it, pink and white, and cake and fruit and distracting French bonbons and, in the middle of the table, four great bouquets of hot house flowers.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)