cream
Forms
- Plural
- creams
- present (v1)
- cream
- past (v2)
- creamed
- past participle (v3)
- creamed
- present participle
- creaming
- 3rd person singular
- creams
Definitions
1.The butterfat or milkfat part of milk which rises to the top; this part when separated from the remainder.
- I take my coffee with two cream and three sugar.
2.A yellowish white color; the color of cream.
- Hundreds of examples remain, still following the same general pattern, maroon, green or chocolate brown, for example, from ground to waist level, then a stale Cheddar cheese shade of cream above.
3.Frosting, custard, creamer, or another substance similar to the oily part of milk or to whipped cream.(informal)
- Originally the cream filling in Oreo cookies was made with pork lard.
4.A dish prepared through creaming, particularly cream of
- I put cream in my coffee.
1.To puree, to blend with a liquifying process.
- Cream the vegetables with the olive oil, flour, salt and water mixture.
2.To obliterate, to defeat decisively.(slang)
- First up, the Hungarian election, where Prime Minister Viktor Orban and his Fidesz Party got absolutely creamed.
- We creamed the opposing team!
3.To turn a yellowish white color; to give something the color of cream.
1.Cream-coloured; having a yellowish white colour.
Frequency
Overall
Uncommon· #2241
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Rare
- General reading & writing
- Uncommon
- Academic
- Rare
- Literature
- Rare
Related words
Synonyms
Etymology
From Middle English creime, creme, from Old French creme, cresme, blend of Late Latin chrisma (“ointment”) (from Ancient Greek χρῖσμα (khrîsma, “unguent”)), and Late Latin crāmum (“cream”), 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”)). Doublet of crema and crème. Displaced native Old English rēam (“cream”) (> modern ream).