Word: cream Part of Speech: noun 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). 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). Pronunciation: /kɹiːm/ 1. The butterfat or milkfat part of milk which rises to the top; this part when separated from the remainder. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Take 100 ml of cream and 50 grams of sugar… 2. The butterfat or milkfat part of milk which rises to the top; this part when separated from the remainder. Labels: US, countable, uncountable Example: You may have noticed that any time that filling is mentioned on Oreo packaging, it's called "creme." This is no typo. Technically, the creamy filling inside an Oreo is not cream at all: The recipe used actually contains no dairy; as such, the FDA prohibits Nabisco from labeling the product as "cream." 3. The butterfat or milkfat part of milk which rises to the top; this part when separated from the remainder. Labels: UK, countable, uncountable 4. The butterfat or milkfat part of milk which rises to the top; this part when separated from the remainder. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: I take my coffee with two cream and three sugar. 5. A yellowish white color; the color of cream. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: 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. 6. Frosting, custard, creamer, or another substance similar to the oily part of milk or to whipped cream. Labels: countable, informal, uncountable Example: Originally the cream filling in Oreo cookies was made with pork lard. 7. A dish prepared through creaming, particularly cream of Labels: countable, uncountable 8. The best part of something. Labels: countable, figuratively, uncountable Example: the cream of the crop Example: the cream of a collection of books or pictures 9. A viscous aqueous oil or fat emulsion with a medicament added, used to apply that medicament to the skin. (compare with ointment) Labels: countable, uncountable Example: You look really sunburnt; you should apply some cream. Example: In vain she tries her paste and creams, / To smooth her skin or hide its seams. 10. Semen. Labels: countable, slang, uncountable, vulgar Example: 2001, Darwin Porter, Hollywood’s Silent Closet: The Lusty Saga of America’s First Star F*#%er!! (novel), Blood Moon Productions, Ltd., →ISBN, page 155, He rode me for ten—or was it fifteen?—minutes before one final fuckthrust that filled me completely with his cream. Example: He tucked his cock into his pants before rubbing his cream into her breasts in slow, teasing strokes. 11. The chrism or consecrated oil used in anointing ceremonies. Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable Example: there shall never harlot have happe, by the helpe of Oure Lord, to kylle a crowned Kynge that with Creyme is anoynted.