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Meaning of cream | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B1 Frequent
kɹiːm

Definitions

  1. The butterfat or milkfat part of milk which rises to the top; this part when separated from the remainder
  2. The butterfat or milkfat part of milk which rises to the top; this part when separated from the remainder.
    countable, uncountable
  3. The liquid separated from milk, possibly with certain other milk products added, and with at least eighteen percent of it milkfat
  4. The liquid separated from milk, possibly with certain other milk products added, and with at least eighteen percent of it milkfat.
    US, countable, uncountable
  5. The liquid separated from milk containing at least 18 percent milkfat (48% for double cream)
  6. The liquid separated from milk containing at least 18 percent milkfat (48% for double cream).
    UK, countable, uncountable
  7. A portion of cream, such as the amount found in a creamer
  8. A portion of cream, such as the amount found in a creamer.
    countable, uncountable
  9. A yellowish white color; the color of cream
  10. A yellowish white color; the color of cream.
    countable, uncountable
  11. Frosting, custard, creamer, or another substance similar to the oily part of milk or to whipped cream.
    countable, informal, uncountable
  12. A dish prepared through creaming, particularly cream of
    countable, uncountable
  13. The best part of something.
    countable, figuratively, uncountable
  14. A viscous aqueous oil or fat emulsion with a medicament added, used to apply that medicament to the skin. (compare with ointment)
    countable, uncountable
  15. Semen.
    countable, slang, uncountable, vulgar
  16. The chrism or consecrated oil used in anointing ceremonies.
    countable, obsolete, uncountable

Equivalents

Afrikaans room
العربية الدّهن كريم
Български крем
Català crema
Cymraeg eli hufen
Dansk creme purere
Ελληνικά κρεμ κρέμα
Esperanto kremkolora kremo
فارسی کرم
Gaeilge bánbhuí ungadh
Gàidhlig
עברית קצפת קרם
हिन्दी क्रीम
Bahasa Indonesia krim
Íslenska bursta krem rjómi rústa
Italiano crema
ქართული კრემი
한국어 크림
Kurdî ce çê ce Elî Java kêm kêm kêm
Македонски кајмак крем
Bahasa Melayu krim
မြန်မာဘာသာ မလိုင် မုန့် အလှဆီ
Português creme nata
Română crema
Slovenščina krema smetana
Shqip ajkë
Kiswahili krimu
ไทย ครีม
Tagalog krema
اردو کریم
Oʻzbekcha krem
Tiếng Việt kem

Examples

“Take 100 ml of cream and 50 grams of sugar…”
“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."”
“I take my coffee with two cream and three sugar.”
“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.”
“Originally the cream filling in Oreo cookies was made with pork lard.”
“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.’”
“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.”
“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.”
“there shall never harlot have happe, by the helpe of Oure Lord, to kylle a crowned Kynge that with Creyme is anoynted.”

CEFR level

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Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
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