cream
pronunciation
How to pronounce cream in British English:
UK [kriːm]
How to pronounce cream in American English:
US [kriːm]
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- Noun:
- the best people or things in a group
- the part of milk containing the butterfat
- toiletry consisting of any of various substances resembling cream that have a soothing and moisturizing effect when applied to the skin
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- Verb:
- make creamy by beating
- put on cream, as on one's face or body
- remove from the surface
- add cream to one's coffee, for example
Word Origin
- cream
- cream: [14] Cream seems to have come from two distinct late Latin sources: crānum ‘cream’, which may be of Gaulish origin, and chrisma ‘ointment’ (from which English gets chrism [OE]). These two were probably blended together to produce Old French cresme or craime, immediate source of the English word. (Modern French crème was borrowed into English in the 19th century.)=> chrism
- cream (n.)
- early 14c., creyme, from Old French cresme (13c., Modern French crème) "chrism, holy oil," blend of Late Latin chrisma "ointment" (from Greek khrisma "unguent;" see chrism) and Late Latin cramum "cream," which is perhaps from Gaulish. Replaced Old English ream. Re-borrowed 19c. from French as creme. Figurative sense of "most excellent element or part" is from 1580s. Cream-cheese is from 1580s.
- cream (v.)
- mid-15c., "to foam," from cream (n.). Meaning "to beat, thrash, wreck" is 1929, U.S. colloquial. Related: Creamed; creaming.
Synonym
Example
- 1. Spoon the cream onto the berries and serve immediately .
- 2. Do you use shaving cream ?
- 3. Anti-ageing cream simply won 't just do magic to them .
- 4. And does an expensive jar of exclusive cream do anything more than a cheap pot from the supermarket ?
- 5. I piped the frosting and whipped the cream .