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How to spell ice cream

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What it means: A frozen dessert made with cream and sugar.

In a sentence: I love to eat ice cream on sunny days.

Same family: creamy, ice-cream-cone, ice-cream-shop, frozen-dessert. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: The word "ice cream" comes from earlier phrases like "iced cream" in the 17th century, when sweetened cream was literally cooled with ice. Over time, the phrase shortened to "ice cream" and became a popular dessert name around the world.

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