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helado

helado noun: spanish or Latin American ice cream.

Noun

helado (countable and uncountable, plural helados)

  1. Spanish or Latin American ice cream.
    • Soul food, African crafts, and helado sellers line the service streets on either side of the parkway, and traffic halts on all side streets to let the masses promenade.1999 October 19, Alexandra Lange, “50 Ways to Love . . . Park Slope (31-40)”, in New York, New York, N.Y.: New York Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 22 Oct 2007
    • "At my school the Chinese kids go for bubble tea after school, the Puerto Ricans get batidos and the other Latin girls like the helados from the street cart," said Shirley Wong, an eighth grader at a parochial school in Chinatown.2006 June 21, Julia Moskin, Kim Severson, “The World’s Cups”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 27 Feb 2021

Forms of helado

pluralhelados

Origin of helado

Borrowed from Spanish helado.

Questions about helado

What does helado mean?
Helado means spanish or Latin American ice cream.
What part of speech is helado?
Helado is a noun.
What is the plural of helado?
The plural of helado is helados.

Words near helado in the dictionary

  1. hel-bent
  2. hel-shoes
  3. Hela
  4. HeLa cell
  5. HeLa cells
  6. helado
  7. helados
  8. Helaegon
  9. Helaemond
  10. helaletid
  11. helaletids

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