cream

Meaning

Noun

1. (countable, uncountable) The butterfat or milkfat part of milk which rises to the top; this part when separated from the remainder.
2. (US, countable, uncountable) The butterfat or milkfat part of milk which rises to the top; this part when separated from the remainder.
3. (UK, countable, uncountable) The butterfat or milkfat part of milk which rises to the top; this part when separated from the remainder.
4. (countable, uncountable) The butterfat or milkfat part of milk which rises to the top; this part when separated from the remainder.
5. (countable, uncountable) A yellowish white color; the color of cream.
6. (countable, informal, uncountable) Frosting, custard, creamer, or another substance similar to the oily part of milk or to whipped cream.
7. (countable, uncountable) A dish prepared through creaming, particularly cream of
8. (countable, figuratively, uncountable) The best part of something.
9. (countable, uncountable) A viscous aqueous oil or fat emulsion with a medicament added, used to apply that medicament to the skin. (compare with ointment)
10. (countable, slang, uncountable, vulgar) Semen.
11. (countable, obsolete, uncountable) The chrism or consecrated oil used in anointing ceremonies.

Adj

Cream-coloured; having a yellowish white colour.

Verb

1. (transitive) To puree, to blend with a liquifying process.
2. (transitive) To turn a yellowish white color; to give something the color of cream.
3. (slang, transitive) To obliterate, to defeat decisively.
4. (intransitive, slang, vulgar) To ejaculate (used of either gender).
5. (slang, transitive, vulgar) To ejaculate in (clothing or a bodily orifice).
6. (transitive) To rub, stir, or beat (butter) into a light creamy consistency.
7. (transitive) To skim, or take off by skimming, as cream.
8. (figuratively, transitive) To take off the best or choicest part of.
9. (transitive) To furnish with, or as if with, cream.
10. (intransitive) To gather or form cream.

Synonyms

ointment

waxen

cream-colored

cream-colored

cream-coloured

skim

elite

scum

foam

lather

lotion

butter

🧈

emollient

cream off

clobber

thrash

yellowish

pick

⛏️

top

🔝

flower

🌸

light yellow

yellow

bat

🦇

creamy

unguent

spume

surface

off-white

custard

🍮

cheese

🧀

froth

lick

best

paste

skim off

drub

beat

crème de la crème

cream of the crop

butterfat

concentration

come

bubble

coin

🪙

fizz

finest

clotted cream

brush

flame

bang

Translations

crème

Sahne

creme

room

panna

nata

crema

Rahm

crema

nata

Creme

nata

Obers

crème

Pronounced as (IPA)

/kɹiːm/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: creime, creme

Cognate with Welsh: cramen

Cognate with Breton: crammen

Cognate with Middle Irish: screm

Cognate with Dutch: schram

Cognate with Lithuanian: kramas

Cognate with Old English: rēam

In summary

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).
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).

Sentences

Why does the ice cream truck keep playing such a sad song “ send in the clowns”?