noun
soft unripened cheese made of sweet milk and cream
• Hypernyms: ↑cheese
• Hyponyms: ↑double cream, ↑mascarpone
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noun1. : an unripened cheese made from whole sweet milk enriched with cream or by working cream into a skimmed-milk curd and often containing as high as 50 percent fat
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1. a soft, white, smooth-textured, unripened, spreadable cheese made of sweet milk and sometimes cream.
2. Gulf States. cottage cheese.
[1575-85]
Regional Variation. 2. See cottage cheese.
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cream cheese noun
Soft white cheese
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Main Entry: ↑cream
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cream cheese UK US noun [uncountable]
a type of thick soft smooth white cheese that does not have a strong taste
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cream cheese,
a soft, white cheese made from cream, or milk and cream.
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n. soft, rich cheese made from unskimmed milk and cream
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noun [noncount]
: a soft white cheese made from milk and cream
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soft white cheese containing a lot of cream
Useful english dictionary. 2012.