snow Definition
snow (snō)
noun
- particles of water vapor which when frozen in the upper air fall to earth as soft, white, crystalline flakes
- a falling of snow
- snowy weather
- a mass or accumulation of fallen snow
- Old Poet. whiteness
- something like snow in whiteness, texture, etc.
- ☆ fluctuating spots appearing on a television screen as a result of a weak signal, shot effect, etc.
- ☆ Slang cocaine or heroin
Etymology: ME < OE snaw, akin to Ger schnee < IE base *sneigwh-, to snow, *snoigwhos, snow > OIr snechta, Russ snieg, L nix (gen. nivis)
intransitive verb
to fall as or like snow
Etymology: ME snowen < OE sniwian
transitive verb
- to shower or let fall as or like snow
- ☆ to cover, obstruct, etc. with or as with snow: usually with in, up, under, etc.
- ☆ Slang to deceive, mislead, or win over by glib talk, flattery, etc.
snow Idioms
snow under
☆- to weigh down or overwhelm with work, etc.
- to defeat decisively
Snow Definition
Snow (snō)
Snow, C(harles) P(ercy) Baron Snow of Leicester 1905-80; Eng. novelist & physicist
snow Synonyms
snow
n.
snow Synonyms
snow
v.
snow Usage Examples
Converse of object
- melt: With the melted snows from nearby mountain ranges, there is no lack of water for irrigation.
- shovel: I had a tough go as a kid and my animals kept me going, I shoveled snow mowed lawns to buy feed.
- thaw: This crossing might be hazardous, or even impossible, if the river is in spate after heavy rain or thawing snow.
- blow: Each night the wind would blow the snow off the moor to drift across the road and the work had to start again.
- lie: In Northern Ireland there was 18cm of lying snow.
Adjective modifier
- powdery: Had to cut a channel 4 5 foot deep through the powdery snow.
- heavy: Heavy snow also affected NE Scotland forcing 80 schools to close.
- fresh: We had five days left, and no chance of setting foot on the route until two meters of fresh snow had settled.
- unconsolidated: Ben Nevis has piles of new unconsolidated snow from the foot of Tower Ridge upwards in all locations.
- unstable: Due to poorer visibility and unstable snow next day we went skiing.
- deep: Black Forest families carved cuckoo clocks during the hard and long winters when deep snow kept them inside.
Modifies a noun
- leopard: The next thing she new she was being pounced on by a snow leopard.
- flurry: About Bob, the pages flutter down, in a pathetic little snow flurry.
- plow: Our winter service vehicles can all be quickly fitted with snow plows.
- cannon: Almost all the slopes are covered by snow cannons.
- storm: Where else in the world would you change draw times to accommodate players stranded in New York by an early season snow storm.
- slope: From base camp, we climb directly up the slope below the Urus glacier to gain easy snow slopes.
Noun used with modifier
Browse dictionary entries near snow
- ‹ snout beetle
- ‹ snout
- ‹ snotty
- ‹ snot
- ‹ SNORT Network-Based IDS
- ‹ snort
- ‹ Snorri Sturluson
- ‹ snorkel
- ‹ snore
- ‹ Snoqualmie Falls

