Neve Definition

nā-vā
noun
The upper part of a glacier where the snow turns into ice.
American Heritage

Firn.

Webster's New World
The area above or at the head of a glacier that accumulates firn.
Webster's New World
The granular snow typically found in such a field.
American Heritage

Other Word Forms of Neve

Noun

Singular:
neve
Plural:
nvs

Origin of Neve

  • French from French dialectal névi from Vulgar Latin nivātum from neuter of Latin nivātus cooled by snow from nix niv- snow sneigwh- in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From the Swiss French term névi, from Latin nix, nivis (“snow").

    From Wiktionary

Neve Sentence Examples

  • I've neve found a keyless chuck that I like.

  • These processes are accompanied by a gradual descent down the mountain side, during which the neve suffers consolidation, until it becomes compact glacier-ice.

  • The neve is thus the feeding ground of the glacier (q.v.).

  • On the north and west the slopes of Great Ararat are covered with glittering fields of unbroken neve.

  • For the father, see John Le Neve's Fasti ecclesiae anglicanae (London, 1716), and Anthony Wood's Athenae oxonienses.

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