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creme

creme is the alternative spelling of crème.

Meaning of crème

Adjective

crème (comparative more crème, superlative most crème)

  1. Synonym of cream.
    • I was still wearing Florsheim cordovan wingtip shoes, medium gray flannel slacks, with a broadcoth crème shirt that displayed pale green stripes setting off my dark green silk tie imprinted with light brown heads of horses.1989, Benjamin Evans Dean, A Virginian in Yankeeland: Volume Four: Some Stars and Stripes Voyages, →ISBN, page 10
    Synonyms:
    cream

See all 4 meanings of crème

Forms of creme

Adjective
comparativemore creme
superlativemost creme
Noun
pluralcremes
Verb
third-person singular presentcremes
present participlecreming
past participlecremed
pastcremed

Words formed from creme

Phrases with creme

2 more phrasesFewer phrases

Questions about creme

What is creme the alternative spelling of?
Creme is the alternative spelling of crème.

Words near creme in the dictionary

  1. crematories
  2. crematorium
  3. crematoriums
  4. cremators
  5. crematory
  6. creme
  7. creme brulee
  8. creme brulees
  9. creme caramel
  10. creme caramels
  11. creme chantilly

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Adapted from Wiktionary: creme (page history and authors); crème (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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