cream

1. 1.

   the best people or things in a group

   “the cream of England's young men were killed in the Great War”

   Synonymspick

   Broaderelite
2. 2.

   the part of milk containing the butterfat

   Broaderdairy product

   Narrowerclotted creamdouble cremeheavy creamlight creamsour creamwhipping cream
3. 3.

   toiletry consisting of any of various substances in the form of a thick liquid that have a soothing and moisturizing effect when applied to the skin

   Synonymsointmentemollient

   Broadertoiletry

   Narrowercold creamhand creamlanolinnardsunscreen

Other forms of cream

plural

creams·

past tense

creamed·

present participle

creaming·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about cream

What does cream mean?

cream means "make creamy by beating". That is the primary sense; the word has 8 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in cream?

cream has 1 syllable: cream. In IPA it is /ˈkɹim/.

What is another word for cream?

Close synonyms include bat, clobber, drub, thrash, lick. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is cream a common word?

cream is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.