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gelato

Syllables: ge·la·to/dʒəˈlɑːtəʊ/US/d͡ʒəˈlɑtoʊ/

gelato noun: an Italian variant of ice cream made from milk and sugar, combined with other flavourings. The ingredients are supercooled while stirring to break up ice crystals as they form.

gelato: an Italian variant of ice cream made from milk and sugar, combined with other flavourings. The...
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Noun

gelato (usually uncountable, plural gelati or gelatos)

  1. (usually) An Italian variant of ice cream made from milk and sugar, combined with other flavourings. The ingredients are supercooled while stirring to break up ice crystals as they form.
    • Now the area has been remade in their image. Every other storefront seems to be a coffee shop, a gelato shop, or a med spa.2025 May 5, Brock Colyar, “It Must Be Nice to Be a West Village Girl”, in New York, archived from the original on 19 May 2025

gelato meaning in Hindi, Marathi, Arabic and Indonesian

gelato in Hindi

Italian-style ice cream
जेलातो jelāto

gelato in Marathi

Italian-style ice cream
जेलातो jelāto

gelato in Arabic

Italian-style ice cream
جِيلَاتِي jīlātī, جِيلَاتُو jīlātū

gelato in Indonesian

Italian-style ice cream
gelato
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gelato in Thai
เจลาโต jee-laa-dtoo

Examples of gelato in a sentence

  • I love that froyo tastes like ice cream and gelato, but is healthier.
  • Claudia and I are suckers for gelato, and when you walk through Florence, gelaterie are everywhere.
  • Other offerings were as expected: tiramisu ($6), crème brûlée ($5), truffle molten-lava cake ($7) and gelati ($5).

All 11 example sentences with gelato

Forms of gelato

pluralgelati
pluralgelatos
alternative Australiagelati

Plural of gelato: gelati or gelatos

Origin of gelato

Borrowed from Italian gelato (“ice cream”), from Latin gelātus, derived from gelū (“frost, chill”), ultimately from the Proto-Indo-European *gel- (“cold”).

Words that rhyme with gelato

Questions about gelato

What does gelato mean?
Gelato means an Italian variant of ice cream made from milk and sugar, combined with other flavourings. The ingredients are supercooled while stirring to break up ice crystals as they form.
What is gelato in Hindi?
Gelato in Hindi is जेलातो (jelāto). See Gelato meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is gelato?
Gelato is a noun.
How do you pronounce gelato?
Gelato is pronounced /d͡ʒəˈlɑtoʊ/ (US).
What is the plural of gelato?
The plural of gelato is gelati.

Words near gelato in the dictionary

  1. gelation
  2. gelation time
  3. gelation times
  4. gelations
  5. gelativorous
  6. gelato
  7. gelatoid
  8. gelatoids
  9. gelator
  10. gelators
  11. gelatos

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: gelato (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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