cream
- Top 3000
Sense 1
- noun
- A1
The thick fat part of milk that rises to the top, which people pour over food or beat until it becomes thick and soft.
Whipped cream goes flat if you beat it too long.
The soup tastes much richer with a spoonful of cream.
He takes his coffee black, without sugar or cream.
Common collocations: whipped cream · sour cream · double cream · a spoonful of cream · cream and sugar
Sense 2
- noun
- A2
A soft thick substance that people put on the skin, often to make it soft or to help a cut get well again.
The doctor gave me a cream for the itchy rash.
This cream smells of almonds and soaks in very quickly.
She keeps a small tube of cream in her handbag.
Common collocations: hand cream · face cream · sun cream · apply a cream · a tube of cream
Part of: Hygiene, At the doctor's, Illnesses and symptoms
Sense 3 · less common
- adjective
- A2
Having a pale yellowish white colour, like the thick top part of milk.
She wore a cream blouse with dark brown trousers.
We chose cream tiles for the bathroom instead of white.
The old car is cream with a thin red stripe.
Common collocations: cream walls · a cream shirt · cream-coloured · cream curtains