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ys-KREEM/ˌaɪs ˈkriːm/

Ice cream is a sweet frozen dessert. The id uses a hyphen; the words are often written ice cream (two words) or ice-cream. Uncountable when you mean the food: some ice cream, a scoop of ice cream. An ice cream can mean one cone. Cream alone is not frozen.

Meaning

A sweet frozen food made from milk or cream.

Examples

• “Would you like some ice cream?”
• “The children want ice cream after lunch.”
• “This ice cream is too sweet for me.”

Good to know

some ice cream (food). an ice cream (one cone). Contrast: cream.

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