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gelato

Definition, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for gelato.

Editorial note

Your gelateria analogy is flawed, because the gelateria is already a commercial enterprise, making gelato and selling it to customers.

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Quick take

An Italian variant of ice cream made from milk and sugar, combined with other flavourings. The ingredients are supercooled while stirring to break up ice crystals as they form.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of gelato gathered in one view.

noun

An Italian variant of ice cream made from milk and sugar, combined with other flavourings. The ingredients are supercooled while stirring to break up ice crystals as they form.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for gelato.

noun

An Italian variant of ice cream made from milk and sugar, combined with other flavourings. The ingredients are supercooled while stirring to break up ice crystals as they form.

Example sentences

1

Your gelateria analogy is flawed, because the gelateria is already a commercial enterprise, making gelato and selling it to customers.

2

New York City seems to be a counterexample - gelato and ice cream stores everywhere that seem to do decent trade year-round...

3

Oddly enough I'm not into sweets so ice cream doesn't interest me (though a good gelato is pretty awesome).

4

Or perhaps a brioche with the right amount of French vanilla ice cream/gelato?

5

A more apt analogy would be someone who - as a hobby - makes the best damn gelato on the planet...when he has the time.

6

Best gelato I've ever had and the people that run it are pretty damn cool.

7

They certainly like their dogs and gelato more any other city I've been to.

8

There isn’t negotiation built in but you connect to something like Gelato[2] and when you get orders on Openfront, they are sent to Gelato to fulfill and once they ship them, tracking’s relayed back to Openfront through Openship.

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Edit: As for me, I don't like milk much, but I'm a big fan of gelato, and various tasty cheeses.

10

Facebook on its own might be an alright dating site, except for the fact that people don't expect to be solicited there, so Gelato is providing a valuable service.

11

If it gets too hot I would suggest you try a Turkish ice cream called Mado (similar to Italian gelato), or maybe a cool drink.

12

I did a Airbnb stay in Rome last year...the gov't there has been trying to better enforce its tax laws, even to a comedic degree (you, the customer, can get in trouble for walking out of a gelato shop without a receipt).

Quote examples

1

In Italian, "gelato" refers generally to all ice-cream-consistency-frozen-desert-ish stuff, including for example sorbet (sorbetto).

2

Heh, even a local gelato place is currently inviting people to choose between "Mint" Romney and "Ba-Rocky" Road.

3

It comes from the same word, gelum, Latin for frost, which also gives us "gelatin" and "gelato".

4

I think what @eigenvalue was getting at was something like, "hey, I bet people would pay for your gelato, so you could turn this into something more than just a hobby."

Proper noun examples

1

There's a lot of potential for a gpu cloud - from quick rendering (xtraNormal/nVidia Gelato) to scientific computing (Larrabee?).

2

I'm building a merch builder website for startups and most PODs (Gelato, Printify, Printful) all have their own issues.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use gelato in a sentence?

Your gelateria analogy is flawed, because the gelateria is already a commercial enterprise, making gelato and selling it to customers.

What does gelato mean?

An Italian variant of ice cream made from milk and sugar, combined with other flavourings. The ingredients are supercooled while stirring to break up ice crystals as they form.

What part of speech is gelato?

gelato is commonly used as noun.