snow
/snoʊ̯/ noun A1- The partly frozen, crystalline state of water that falls from the atmosphere as precipitation in flakes; also, the falling of such flakes; and the accumulation of them on the ground or on objects as a white layer.
- An instance of the falling of snow (etymology 1, noun sense 1); a snowfall; also, a snowstorm. · We have had several heavy snows this year.
- A period of time when snow falls; a winter.
- An accumulation or spread of snow.
- A dish or component of a dish resembling snow, especially one made by whipping egg whites until creamy. · apple snow lemon snow
- The white color of snow.
- Clusters of white flowers.
- The moving pattern of random dots seen on a radar or television screen, etc., when no transmission signal is being received or when there is interference. · Near-synonym: static
Plural snows
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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It was an unusually mild winter, with so little snow that Anne and Diana could go to school nearly every day by way of the Birch Path.
It had been a very mild December and people had looked forward to a green Christmas; but just enough snow fell softly in the night to transfigure Avonlea.
She had been studying her lessons, but it had grown too dark to see the book, so she had fallen into wide-eyed reverie, looking out past the boughs of the Snow Queen, once more bestarred with its tufts of blossom.
Anne reveled in the drive to the hall, slipping along over the satin-smooth roads with the snow crisping under the runners.
Other matches
- snow Preceded by the dummy subject it: to have snow A2
- snow A square-rigged sailing vessel similar to a bri... C2
- snow Done because the alternate outcome is very unli... C2
- snow down to fall from the sky, as snow
- snow in To prevent from moving
- snow out To cover with snow.
- snow over Synonym of snow in.
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