sour cream

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   artificially soured light cream

   Synonymssoured cream

   Broadercream

Questions about sour cream

What does sour cream mean?

sour cream means "artificially soured light cream".

What is another word for sour cream?

Close synonyms include soured cream. 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 sour cream a common word?

sour cream is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.