cream
Part of speech: noun
adj
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
medicine
sciences
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).
Inflected forms:
form: creams
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: creme
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: creyme
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: creme
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: creyme
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: creams
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: creaming
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: creamed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: creamed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: creme
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: creyme
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The butterfat or milkfat part of milk which rises to the top; this part when separated from the remainder.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Take 100 ml of cream and 50 grams of sugar…
gloss: The butterfat or milkfat part of milk which rises to the top; this part when separated from the remainder.
pos: noun
tags: US
countable
uncountable
examples: 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."
gloss: The butterfat or milkfat part of milk which rises to the top; this part when separated from the remainder.
pos: noun
tags: UK
countable
uncountable
gloss: The butterfat or milkfat part of milk which rises to the top; this part when separated from the remainder.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: I take my coffee with two cream and three sugar.
gloss: A yellowish white color; the color of cream.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: 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.
gloss: Frosting, custard, creamer, or another substance similar to the oily part of milk or to whipped cream.
pos: noun
tags: countable
informal
uncountable
examples: Originally the cream filling in Oreo cookies was made with pork lard.
gloss: A dish prepared through creaming, particularly cream of
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The best part of something.
pos: noun
tags: countable
figuratively
uncountable
examples: the cream of the crop
the cream of a collection of books or pictures
Welcome, O flower and cream of Knights-errant.
“But the cream of it was," said Norman, pressing a large tortoiseshell-rimmed monocle into his eye, “you don't mind me telling this, Face, do you?”
[…] he can assure the assembled Deans that all this is true, and that the Academy has presently in residence no fewer than a third of the continent’s top thirty juniors, in age brackets all across the board, and that I here, who go by ‘Hal,’ usually, am ‘right up there among the very cream.’
gloss: A viscous aqueous oil or fat emulsion with a medicament added, used to apply that medicament to the skin. (compare with ointment)
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: You look really sunburnt; you should apply some cream.
In vain she tries her paste and creams, / To smooth her skin or hide its seams.
gloss: Semen.
pos: noun
tags: countable
slang
uncountable
vulgar
examples: 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.
He tucked his cock into his pants before rubbing his cream into her breasts in slow, teasing strokes.
When he did come, he spurted his cream all over the front of Rosalee’s T-shirt and neck.
gloss: The chrism or consecrated oil used in anointing ceremonies.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
examples: there shall never harlot have happe, by the helpe of Oure Lord, to kylle a crowned Kynge that with Creyme is anoynted.
gloss: Cream-coloured; having a yellowish white colour.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: To puree, to blend with a liquifying process.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Cream the vegetables with the olive oil, flour, salt and water mixture.
gloss: To turn a yellowish white color; to give something the color of cream.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To obliterate, to defeat decisively.
pos: verb
tags: slang
transitive
examples: We creamed the opposing team!
First up, the Hungarian election, where Prime Minister Viktor Orban and his Fidesz Party got absolutely creamed.
gloss: To ejaculate (used of either gender).
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
slang
vulgar
examples: Danny Zuko: You are supreme / The chicks’ll cream / For grease lightning.
gloss: To ejaculate in (clothing or a bodily orifice).
pos: verb
tags: slang
transitive
vulgar
gloss: To rub, stir, or beat (butter) into a light creamy consistency.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To skim, or take off by skimming, as cream.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To take off the best or choicest part of.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
transitive
gloss: To furnish with, or as if with, cream.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Please cream these two coffees and leave the others black.
creaming the fragrant cups
A powerful agent is the right word: it lights the reader's way and makes it plain; a close approximation to it will answer, and much traveling is done in a well-enough fashion by its help, but we do not welcome it and applaud it and rejoice in it as we do when the right one blazes out on us. Whenever we come upon one of those intensely right words in a book or a newspaper the resulting effect is physical as well as spiritual, and electrically prompt: it tingles exquisitely around through the walls of the mouth and tastes as tart and crisp and good as the autumn-butter that creams the sumac-berry.
gloss: To gather or form cream.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
Synonyms: crème
creme
ream
Related words: crème brûlée
crème caramel
crème de cacao
crème de la crème
crème de menthe
crème fraîche
espresso crème
ramekin
ras malai
ream
vichyssoise
Derived words: barrier cream
Bavarian cream
BB cream
beard cream
Boston cream
Boston cream donut
Boston cream pie
bourbon cream
burnt cream
butter cream
buttercream
Cambridge cream
cat that got the cream
Chantilly cream
clotted cream
clouted cream
coconut cream
codlins and cream
cold cream
confectioner's cream
creamable
cream ale
cream bun
creambush
cream cake
cream cheese
cream cheeze
cream-colored courser
cream corn
cream cracker
cream crackered
cream-crackered
creamcups
creamery
cream-fruit
cream gauge
cream gene
cream Havarti
cream horn
cream in one's coffee
creamish
creamlaid
cream-laid
creamless
creamlike
cream line
creamline
cream liqueur
cream nut
cream of coconut
cream of lime
cream of tartar
cream of tartar bread
cream of tartar tree
cream of the crop
cream of the valley
cream of wheat
creamometer
creamometric
cream pie
creampie
cream puff
cream puff piece
cream rinse
cream sauce
cream sherry
creamsicle
cream skim
cream-skim
cream skimming
cream slice
cream soda
cream soup
cream stew
cream tea
creamware
cream wove
creamy
Creole cream cheese
custard cream
day cream
decream
denture cream
devil's cream
Devonshire cream
diaper cream
diplomat cream
double cream
egg cream
face cream
facial cream
French cream
full cream milk
glacier cream
gypsy cream
hand cream
heavy cream
ice cream
iced cream
Irish cream
Jersey cream
light cream
like the cat that got the cream
maize-cream
mint cream
mock cream
moisturising cream
moisturizing cream
nappy cream
nice cream
night cream
pastry cream
peaches and cream
peaches-and-cream
razor cream
salad cream
shave cream
shaving cream
shoe cream
single cream
skin cream
snow cream
sour cream
soured cream
sports cream
squirty cream
stone cream
strawberries and cream
sugar cream pie
sun cream
suncream
suntan cream
sweet cream
tequila cream
Trinity cream
vanishing cream
whip cream
whipped cream
whipping cream
creamer
cream in one's jeans
cream off
cream one's jeans
cream the crop
cream up
Translations:
lang: Abkhaz
word: ахҷаҭ
roman: axčʼat
lang: Albanian
word: ajkë
lang: Albanian
word: mazë
lang: Albanian
word: kajmak
lang: Southern Altai
word: каймак
roman: kaymak
lang: Arabic
word: قِشْطَة
roman: qišṭa
lang: Arabic
word: قِشْدَة
roman: qišda
lang: Arabic
word: قِشْطَة
roman: gišṭa
lang: Arabic
word: كريمة
roman: krēma
lang: Arabic
word: فرارة
roman: frara
lang: Aragonese
word: crema
lang: Armenian
word: սեր
roman: ser
lang: Armenian
word: սերուցք
roman: serucʻkʻ
lang: Assamese
word: সৰ
roman: xor
lang: Asturian
word: crema
lang: Azerbaijani
word: qaymaq
lang: Bashkir
word: ҡаймаҡ
roman: qaymaq
lang: Basque
word: esne-gain
lang: Basque
word: gain
lang: Basque
word: krema
lang: Belarusian
word: вяршкі́
roman: vjarškí
lang: Bengali
word: মালাই
roman: malai
lang: Bulgarian
word: кайма́к
roman: kajmák
lang: Bulgarian
word: смета́на
roman: smetána
lang: Burmese
word: နို့ဆီ
roman: nui.hci
lang: Burmese
word: မလိုင်
roman: ma.luing
lang: Buryat
word: сүсэгы
roman: süsegy
lang: Catalan
word: nata
lang: Catalan
word: crema
lang: Chinese Cantonese
word: 忌廉
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 奶油
roman: nǎiyóu
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 乳脂
roman: rǔzhī
lang: East Circassian
word: шатэ
roman: šatɛ
lang: Cornish
word: dehen
lang: Czech
word: smetana
lang: Danish
word: fløde
lang: Dutch
word: room
lang: Esperanto
word: kremo
lang: Estonian
word: koor
lang: Faroese
word: rómi
lang: Finnish
word: kerma
lang: French
word: crème
lang: Galician
word: tona
lang: Galician
word: nata
lang: Georgian
word: ნაღები
roman: naɣebi
lang: Georgian
word: არაჟანი
roman: aražani
lang: German
word: Sahne
lang: German
word: Obers
lang: German
word: Schmetten
lang: German
word: Rahm
lang: German
word: Niidel
lang: Greek
word: κρέμα γάλακτος
roman: kréma gálaktos
lang: Hawaiian
word: kalima waiū
lang: Hebrew
word: שַׁמֶּנֶת
roman: shaménet
lang: Hindi
word: मलाई
roman: malāī
lang: Hungarian
word: tejszín
lang: Icelandic
word: rjómi
lang: Ido
word: kremo
lang: Indonesian
word: krim
lang: Indonesian
word: rum
lang: Irish
word: uachtar
lang: Italian
word: panna
lang: Japanese
word: クリーム
roman: kurīmu
lang: Kazakh
word: қаймақ
roman: qaimaq
lang: Korean
word: 크림
roman: keurim
lang: Central Kurdish
word: توێژ
roman: twêj
lang: Northern Kurdish
word: to
lang: Northern Kurdish
word: toşîr
lang: Northern Kurdish
word: sertûk
lang: Kyrgyz
word: каймак
roman: kaymak
lang: Ladin
word: brama
lang: Lao
word: ຫົວນ້ຳນົມ
roman: hūa nam nom
lang: Latgalian
word: kriejums
lang: Latgalian
word: kraiškys
lang: Latvian
word: krējums
lang: Lithuanian
word: grietinė
lang: Luxembourgish
word: Rahm
lang: Macedonian
word: кајмак
roman: kajmak
lang: Malay
word: krim
lang: Malay
word: kepala susu
lang: Māori
word: kirīmi
lang: Middle English
word: creme
lang: Mingrelian
word: ხეჭეთი
roman: xeč̣eti
lang: Mongolian
word: цөцгий
roman: cöcgii
lang: Mongolian
word: өрөм
roman: öröm
lang: Norman
word: crème
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: fløte
lang: Old English
word: rēam
lang: Pashto
word: قيماغ
roman: qaymāǧ
lang: Pashto
word: پېروى
roman: perᶕway
lang: Persian
word: سَرْشیر
roman: saršir
lang: Persian
word: خامِه
roman: xâme
lang: Plautdietsch
word: Schmaunt
lang: Polish
word: śmietanka
lang: Portuguese
word: creme
lang: Portuguese
word: nata
lang: Punjabi
word: ਮਲ਼ਾਈ
roman: maḷāī
lang: Romanian
word: smântână
lang: Russian
word: сли́вки
roman: slívki
lang: Russian
word: смета́на
roman: smetána
lang: Northern Sami
word: lákca
lang: Sanskrit
word: शरस्
roman: śaras
lang: Scots
word: ream
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: uachdar
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: сметана
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: скоруп
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: кајмак
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: врхње
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: шлаг
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: smetana
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: skorup
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: kajmak
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: vrhnje
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: šlag
lang: Shona
word: ruwomba
lang: Slovak
word: smotana
lang: Slovene
word: smetana
lang: Somali
word: labeen
lang: Spanish
word: nata
lang: Spanish
word: crema
lang: Swedish
word: grädde
lang: Swedish
word: römme
lang: Swedish
word: råm
lang: Tagalog
word: laknip
lang: Tagalog
word: krema
lang: Tajik
word: саршир
roman: saršir
lang: Tamil
word: ஆடை
roman: āṭai
lang: Tamil
word: ஏடு
roman: ēṭu
lang: Tamil
word: கிரீம்
roman: kirīm
lang: Tatar
word: каймак
roman: qaymaq
lang: Telugu
word: మీగడ
roman: mīgaḍa
lang: Thai
word: ครีม
roman: kriim
lang: Tongan
word: kilimi
lang: Tswana
word: lobebe
lang: Turkish
word: kaymak
lang: Ottoman Turkish
word: قایماق
roman: kaymak
lang: Turkmen
word: gaýmak
lang: Ukrainian
word: смета́на
roman: smetána
lang: Ukrainian
word: вершки́
roman: veršký
lang: Urdu
word: مَلائی
roman: malāī
lang: Uyghur
word: قايماق
roman: qaymaq
lang: Uzbek
word: qaymoq
lang: Vietnamese
word: kem
lang: Vietnamese
word: cơ rem
lang: Vietnamese
word: kem sữa
lang: Vietnamese
word: váng sữa
lang: Volapük
word: krem
lang: Volapük
word: miligapin
lang: Walloon
word: crinme
lang: Waray-Waray
word: krema
lang: Welsh
word: hufen
lang: Yakut
word: сүөгэй
roman: süögey
lang: Yiddish
word: שמאַנט
roman: shmant
lang: Zulu
word: ulaza
lang: Afrikaans
word: room
lang: Bulgarian
word: кре́маво
roman: krémavo
lang: Catalan
word: crema
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 乳白色
roman: rǔbáisè
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 奶油色
roman: nǎiyóusè
lang: Czech
word: krémová
lang: Danish
word: cremefarve
lang: Dutch
word: crème
lang: Esperanto
word: kremkoloro
lang: Finnish
word: kermankeltainen
lang: Finnish
word: kermanvalkoinen
lang: French
word: crème
lang: Georgian
word: კრემისფერი
roman: ḳremisperi
lang: German
word: Creme
lang: Greek
word: κρεμ
roman: krem
lang: Hebrew
word: קָרַם
roman: krem
lang: Hungarian
word: krémszín
lang: Hungarian
word: vajszín
lang: Ido
word: kremeakoloro
lang: Indonesian
word: krem
lang: Irish
word: bánbhuí
lang: Italian
word: crema
lang: Japanese
word: クリーム色
roman: kurīmu iro
lang: Lao
word: ນວນ
roman: nūan
lang: Malay
word: kuning air
lang: Malay
word: putih kuning
lang: Malay
word: pingai
lang: Navajo
word: dinilgai
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: kremfarge
lang: Pannonian Rusyn
word: кремови
roman: kremovi
lang: Polish
word: kremowy
lang: Portuguese
word: creme
lang: Romanian
word: crem
lang: Russian
word: кре́мовый
roman: krémovyj
lang: Russian
word: кре́мовый цвет
roman: krémovyj cvet
lang: Spanish
word: crema
lang: Spanish
word: bayo
lang: Swedish
word: gräddfärg
lang: Swedish
word: krämfärg
lang: Tagalog
word: krema
lang: Thai
word: ครีม
roman: kriim
lang: Thai
word: นวล
roman: nuuan
lang: Turkish
word: krem rengi
lang: Turkish
word: krem
lang: Ukrainian
word: кремо́вий
roman: kremóvyj
lang: Ukrainian
word: кремо́вий ко́льор
roman: kremóvyj kólʹor
lang: Vietnamese
word: màu kem
lang: Walloon
word: blanc crinme
lang: Welsh
word: lliw hufen