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cream

UK/kɹiːm//kɹim/

cream noun: the butterfat or milkfat part of milk which rises to the top; this part when separated from the remainder.

Noun

cream (countable and uncountable, plural creams)

  1. The butterfat or milkfat part of milk which rises to the top; this part when separated from the remainder.
    • Take 100 ml of cream and 50 grams of sugar…
    1. (US, standards of identity) The liquid separated from milk, possibly with certain other milk products added, and with at least eighteen percent of it milkfat.
      • 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...2018 February 13, Rebecca Firsker, "What's Really in Oreo Cream Filling? Well, for One Thing, Not Cream", MyRecipes
    2. (UK, standards of identity) The liquid separated from milk containing at least 18 percent milkfat (48% for double cream).
    3. (tea and coffee) A portion of cream, such as the amount found in a creamer.
      • I take my coffee with two cream and three sugar.
  2. A yellowish white color; the color of cream.
    • 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.1962 October, Brian Haresnape, “Focus on B.R. passenger stations”, in Modern Railways, page 253
  3. (informal) Frosting, custard, creamer, or another substance similar to the oily part of milk or to whipped cream.
    • Originally the cream filling in Oreo cookies was made with pork lard.2004, Joey Green, Joey Green's Incredible Country Store, Rodale, →ISBN, page 267
  4. A dish prepared through creaming, particularly cream of
  5. (figuratively) The best part of something.
    • the cream of the crop
    • the cream of a collection of books or pictures
  6. A viscous aqueous oil or fat emulsion with a medicament added, used to apply that medicament to the skin. (compare with ointment)
    • 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.1756, Oliver Goldsmith, The Double Transformation
  7. (slang, vulgar) Semen.
    • He rode me for ten—or was it fifteen?—minutes before one final fuckthrust that filled me completely with his cream.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 tucked his cock into his pants before rubbing his cream into her breasts in slow, teasing strokes.2003, Dominique Adair, “Two Days, Three Nights”, in Tied with a Bow, Ellora’s Cave Publishing, →ISBN, page 74
  8. (obsolete) The chrism or consecrated oil used in anointing ceremonies.
    • there shall never harlot have happe, by the helpe of Oure Lord, to kylle a crowned Kynge that with Creyme is anoynted., Book V

Adjective

cream (not comparable)

  1. Cream-coloured; having a yellowish white colour.

Verb

cream (third-person singular simple present creams, present participle creaming, simple past and past participle creamed)

  1. (transitive) To puree, to blend with a liquifying process.
    • Cream the vegetables with the olive oil, flour, salt and water mixture.
  2. (transitive) To turn a yellowish white color; to give something the color of cream.
  3. (slang, transitive) To obliterate, to defeat decisively.
    • We creamed the opposing team!
    • First up, the Hungarian election, where Prime Minister Viktor Orban and his Fidesz Party got absolutely creamed.2026 April 18, Michelle Cottle, David French, Michelle Goldberg, “JD Vance’s Very Bad Week”, in The New York Times, →ISSN
  4. (intransitive, slang, vulgar) To ejaculate or become wet (used of either gender).
    • Danny Zuko: You are supreme / The chicks’ll cream / For grease lightning.1971, Jim Jacobs, Warren Casey, “Grease Lightnin’”, in Grease
  5. (broadly, intransitive, slang, vulgar) To be very enthusiastic about or attracted to something (used especially of women).
  6. (slang, transitive, vulgar) To ejaculate in (clothing or a bodily orifice).
  7. (transitive) To rub, stir, or beat (butter) into a light creamy consistency.
  8. (transitive) To skim, or take off by skimming, as cream.
  9. (figuratively, transitive) To take off the best or choicest part of.
  10. (transitive) To furnish with, or as if with, cream.
    • Please cream these two coffees and leave the others black.
    • creaming the fragrant cups1871, Adeline Dutton Train Whitney, Real Folks
  11. (intransitive) To gather or form cream.

cream meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali

cream in Hindi

fatty part of milk
मलाई malāī
product to apply to the skin
क्रीम krīm

cream in Tamil

fatty part of milk
ஆடை āṭai, ஏடு ēṭu, கிரீம் kirīm

cream in Urdu

fatty part of milk
مَلائی malāī
product to apply to the skin
کْرِیم krīm

cream in Bengali

fatty part of milk
মালাই malai
product to apply to the skin
ক্রিম krim
More languagesFewer languages
cream in Telugu
మీగడ mīgaḍa
cream in Malayalam
ക്രീം krīṁ
cream in Kannada
ಕೆನೆ, ನಿಡಿ, ಹದಿ, ಅಣ್ಣೆತುಂಡು
cream in Punjabi
ਮਲ਼ਾਈ maḷāī
cream in Gujarati
મલાઈ malāī
cream in Sanskrit
शरस् śaras
cream in Assamese
সৰ xor
cream in Nepali
तर tar
cream in Pashto
قيماغ qaymāǧ, پېروى perᶕway
cream in Tagalog
laknip, krema
cream in Arabic
قِشْطَة qišṭa, قِشْدَة qišda, كْرِيم krīm, كِرِيم kirēm
cream in Malay
krim, kepala susu, kuning air, putih kuning
cream in Indonesian
krim, rum, krem
cream in Persian
سَرْشیر saršir, خامِه xâme, کِرِم kerem, کرم kerem
cream in Thai
ครีม kriim, นวล nuuan
cream in Vietnamese
kem, cơ rem, kem sữa, váng sữa
cream in Myanmar
နို့ဆီ nui.hci, မလိုင် ma.luing, အလှဆီ a.hla.hci, မုန့် mun.

Examples of cream in a sentence

  • 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."2018 February 13, Rebecca Firsker, "What's Really in Oreo Cream Filling? Well, for One Thing, Not Cream", MyRecipes
  • Welcome, O flower and cream of Knights-errant.1612, Thomas Shelton (translator), Don Quixote (originally by Miguel de Cervantes)
  • “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?”1918 August, Katherine Mansfield [pseudonym; Kathleen Mansfield Murry], “Bliss”, in Bliss and Other Stories, London: Constable & Company...
  • When he did come, he spurted his cream all over the front of Rosalee’s T-shirt and neck.2004, Art Wiederhold, Wild Flowers, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 158:

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Synonyms of cream

Forms of cream

Noun
pluralcreams
alternative formcreme
alternative formcreyme
Verb
third-person singular presentcreams
present participlecreaming
past participlecreamed
pastcreamed

Past tense of cream: creamed

Plural of cream: creams

Origin of cream

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).

Words formed from cream

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Questions about cream

What does cream mean?
Cream means the butterfat or milkfat part of milk which rises to the top; this part when separated from the remainder.
What is cream in Hindi?
Cream in Hindi is मलाई (malāī), क्रीम (krīm). See Cream meaning in Hindi.
How do you use cream in a sentence?
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."
What part of speech is cream?
Cream can be a noun, an adjective or a verb.
How do you pronounce cream?
Cream is pronounced /kɹiːm/ (UK).
What is the plural of cream?
The plural of cream is creams.

Words near cream in the dictionary

  1. creakings
  2. creakless
  3. creaks
  4. creaky
  5. creaky voice
  6. cream
  7. cream ale
  8. cream ales
  9. cream bun
  10. cream buns
  11. cream cake

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: cream (page history and authors); ക്രീം (Malayalam) (page history and authors); cream (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); મલાઈ (Gujarati) (page history and authors); तर (Nepali) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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