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snow

Pronunciation: /snəʊ/

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Definition of snow

noun

[mass noun]
  • 1atmospheric water vapour frozen into ice crystals and falling in light white flakes or lying on the ground as a white layer:we were trudging through deep snow
  • (snows) falls of snow:the first snows of winter
  • 2something resembling snow, in particular:
  • a mass of flickering white spots on a television or radar screen, caused by interference or a poor signal: all that they could pick up on their screens was snow
  • informal cocaine.
  • a dessert or other dish resembling snow:vanilla snow
  • [with modifier] a frozen gas resembling snow:carbon dioxide snow

verb

  • 1 [no object] (it snows, it is snowing, etc.) snow falls:it’s not snowing so heavily now
  • (be snowed in/up) be confined or blocked by a large quantity of snow:I was snowed in for a week
  • 2 [with object] North American informal mislead or charm (someone) with elaborate and insincere words:they would snow the public into believing that all was well

Phrasal Verbs

be snowed under

be overwhelmed with a very large quantity of something, especially work:he’s been snowed under with urgent cases

Derivatives

snowless

adjective

snowlike

adjective

Origin:

Old English snāw, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch sneeuw and German Schnee, from an Indo-European root shared by Latin nix, niv- and Greek nipha

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