Compound wordIce cream
A sweet frozen food made from milk or cream.
After the village fair, we all shared mango ice cream.
Remember: Ice + cream. An open compound: two words, one idea. British writers sometimes hyphenate it (ice-cream). Never write icecream.
Short lessonCompounds, blends & clippingsEnglish makes new words by joining words, fusing parts of words, or cutting words short. This is called word formation.