Cream Definition

krēm
creamed, creamer, creaming, creams
noun
creams
The yellowish fatty component of unhomogenized milk that tends to accumulate at the surface.
American Heritage
The oily, yellowish part of milk, which rises to the top and which may be separated: commercial cream contains 18% or more butterfat.
Webster's New World
Any of various foods or confections made of cream or having a creamy consistency.
Ice cream.
Webster's New World
A cosmetic or emulsion with a creamy consistency.
Webster's New World
The color of cream; yellowish white.
Webster's New World
Antonyms:
verb
creamed, creaming, creams
To form into cream or a foamy substance.
Webster's New World
To form cream or a creamy foam on top.
Webster's New World
To have an orgasm.
American Heritage
To remove the cream from.
Webster's New World
To remove, use, etc. the best part of.
Webster's New World
adjective
Containing cream; made of cream.
Webster's New World
Having the consistency of cream; creamy.
Webster's New World
Cream-colored.
Webster's New World
Synonyms:
idiom
cream (one's) jeans
  • To be excited or delighted about something.
American Heritage
cream (one's) jeans
  • To be excited or delighted about something.
American Heritage
cream of
  • creamed purée of

    cream of tomato soup

Webster's New World
cream of the crop
  • the best of a group
Webster's New World

Other Word Forms of Cream

Noun

Singular:
cream
Plural:
creams

Idioms, Phrasal Verbs Related to Cream

Origin of Cream

  • From Middle English creime, creme, from Anglo-Norman creme, cresme (compare French crème), blend of Late Latin chrisma 'ointment' (from Ancient Greek χρῖσμα (chrisma) 'unguent'), and Late Latin crāmum 'skim', from Gaulish *crama (compare Welsh cramen 'scab, skin', Breton crammen), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)krama- (compare Middle Irish screm 'surface, skin', Dutch schram 'abrasion', Lithuanian kramas 'scurf'). Replaced Old English ream. Figurative sense of "most excellent element or part" appears from 1581. Verb meaning "to beat, thrash, wreck" is 1929, U.S. colloquial. The U.S. standard of identity is from 21 CFR 131.3(a).

    From Wiktionary

  • Middle English creme from Old French craime, cresme partly from Late Latin crāmum (of Gaulish origin) (akin to Welsh crawen, cramen crust) (and Middle Irish screm film) and partly from Vulgar Latin crisma an anointing (from Latin chrīsma) (from Greek khrīsma unguent) (from khrīein to anoint ghrēi- in Indo-European roots)

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • Middle English creme from Old French craime, cresme partly from Late Latin crāmum (of Gaulish origin) (akin to Welsh crawen, cramen crust) (and Middle Irish screm film) and partly from Vulgar Latin crisma an anointing (from Latin chrīsma) (from Greek khrīsma unguent) (from khrīein to anoint ghrēi- in Indo-European roots)

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

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