ice cream

Questions about ice cream

What does ice cream mean?

ice cream means "frozen dessert containing cream and sugar and flavoring".

What is another word for ice cream?

Close synonyms include icecream. 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 ice cream a common word?

ice cream is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.