snow

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/snəʊ̯/

noun 6verb 5adj 1name 1

Collocations

(noun.)

ADJ

heavy, thick

fine, light

A light snow fell overnight, leaving just a thin white layer on the grass.

deep | damp, wet

compacted, crisp, frozen, hard, packed

The packed snow on the sidewalk made it difficult to walk without slipping.

powder/powdery, soft

drifting, driving, falling, swirling

The children played outside while soft, falling snow covered the playground.

melted, melting | fresh, new, newly fallen

first

The children waited excitedly for the first snow to fall so they could build a snowman.

spring, winter

artificial

The ski resort relied on artificial snow throughout the dry winter season.

dirty

QUANT

flake | fall, flurry | patch | blanket, carpet

inch

The storm dropped several inches of snow across the city overnight.

VERB + SNOW

be covered in

The mountain peaks were covered in snow after the heavy storm last night.

clear, shovel, sweep

We need to shovel the snow before the neighbors arrive this afternoon.

SNOW + VERB

cover sth, lie, pile (up), settle

After the blizzard, snow piled up against our front door and we couldn't open it.

drift, drive, fall, swirl | melt, thaw

SNOW + NOUN

conditions, flurry, storm (also snowstorm) | plough (also snowplough) | blindness

PREP

across ~

The children trudged across the snow on their way home from school.

in/into ~

My boots sank deep into the snow as I walked across the frozen garden.

through ~

The children walked through the snow in the garden, leaving footprints everywhere.

under ~

The children found a lost toy buried under the snow in their garden.

(verb.)

ADV

hard, heavily

Snow was falling hard when we arrived at the mountain cabin yesterday afternoon.

lightly

PHRASES

start/stop snowing

The weather forecast said it would stop snowing by this afternoon.

Definitions

noun

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.

Snow is white, / And lieth in the dike. And every man lets it lye.

Didſt thou but knovv the inly touch of Loue, / Thou vvouldſt as ſoone goe kindle fire vvith ſnovv / As ſeeke to quench the fire of Loue vvith vvords.

We have had several heavy snows this year.

At Chriſtmas I no more deſire a Roſe, / Then vviſh a Snovv in Mayes nevv fangled ſhovves: / But like of each thing that in ſeaſon grovves.

They sang, that by his native bowers / He stood, in the last moon of flowers, / And thirty snows had not yet shed / Their glory on the warrior's head; […]

The path by which we twain did go, / Which led by tracts that pleased us well, / Thro' four sweet years arose and fell, / From flower to flower, from snow to snow: […]

VVhen VVinter ſhuts the Seas, and fleecy Snovvs / Make Houſes vvhite, ſhe to the Merchant goes: / Rich Cryſtals of the Rock She takes up there, / Huge Agat Vaſes, and old China VVare: […]

This River [the Rubicon] is not ſo contemptible as it is generally repreſented, and vvas much increas'd by the melting of the Snovvs vvhen [Julius] Cæſar paſs'd it, according to Lucan.

Something resembling snow (etymology 1 sense 1) in appearance or color.

apple snow lemon snow

verb

Preceded by the dummy subject it: to have snow (noun etymology 1 sense 1) fall from the atmosphere.

It is snowing. It started to snow.

In wynter whan it ſnoweth it is good ſyttynge by a good fyre: […]

Preceded by the dummy subject it: to have snow (noun etymology 1 sense 1) fall from the atmosphere.

Time on this Head has ſnovv’d, yet ſtill ’tis borne / Aloft; nor thinks but on another’s Grave.

She [Diana] hath ſent (to plague vs) a huge ſauadge Boare, / Of an vn-meaſured height and magnitude. / […] / His briſtles poynted like a range of pikes / Ranck't on his backe: his foame ſnovves vvhere he feeds / His tuskes are like the Indian Oliphants.

To cause (something) to fall like snow.

[A]t the ſetting out of a verie ſtatelie tragedie named Dido, wherein the quéenes banket (with Eneas narration of the deſtruction of Troie) was liuelie deſcribed in a marchpaine patterne, there was alſo a goodlie ſight of hunters with full crie of a kennell of hounds, Mercurie and Iris deſcending and aſcending from and to an high place, the tempeſt wherein it hailed ſmall confects, rained roſewater, and ſnew an artificiall kind of ſnow, all ſtrange, maruellous, ⁊ [and] abundant.

Ride ten thouſand daies and nights, / Till age ſnovv vvhite haires on thee, […]

To cover or scatter (a place or thing) with, or as if with, snow.

Even the Horſe wee ride / Vnſhod, would founder, who takes greateſt pride, / When the moſt curb'd, and playing with the bit, / Hee ſnowes the ground [with froth from his mouth], and doth the Spurre forgit.

There are three Fates, three virgin Sisters, who / Rejoicing in their wind-outspeeding wings, / Their heads with flour snowed over white and new, / Sit in a vale round which Parnassus flings / Its circling skirts— […]

To cause (hair) to turn white; also, to cause (someone) to have white hair.

Ah, courteous England, thy kinde arms I ſee / VVide-stretched out to ſaue and vvelcom me. / Thou (tender Mother) vvilt not ſuffer Age / To ſnovve my locks in Forrein Pilgrimage: […]

adj

Done because the alternate outcome is very unlikely to pass.

Thesaurus

Synonyms

noun — street names for cocaine

noun — precipitation falling from clouds in the form of ice crystal

snowfall

verb — conceal one's true motives from especially by elaborately fe

Antonyms

Idioms & Phrases

snow job

An attempt to persuade a person using flattery or deception.

walk in the snow

An occasion when a momentous career decision is made, especially a decision to resign or retire.

Mr. Trudeau told reporters yesterday he made the decision to put an end to almost 16 years in office after a long, solitary walk Tuesday night through a blinding Ottawa blizzard. .

snow on the mountaintop

Gray or white hair on one's head, especially as an indication of aging.

snow on the rooftop

Gray or white hair on one's head, especially as an indication of aging.

there may be snow on the rooftop but there is fire in the furnace

An individual in advanced age, characterized by graying hair, may still possess ambition and vitality, especially sexual vitality.

Example Bank

Snow is white, / And lieth in the dike. And every man lets it lye.

Wiktionary

Didſt thou but knovv the inly touch of Loue, / Thou vvouldſt as ſoone goe kindle fire vvith ſnovv / As ſeeke to quench the fire of Loue vvith vvords.

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And vvho doth lead them but a paltrey fellovv,? / Long kept in Brittaine at our mothers coſt, / A milkeſopt, one that neuer in his life / Felt ſo much colde as ouer ſhooes in ſnovv: […]

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It is snowing. It started to snow.

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In wynter whan it ſnoweth it is good ſyttynge by a good fyre: […]

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Then there was the watch with staff and lanthorn crying the hour, and the kind of weather; and those who woke up at his voice and turned them round in bed, were glad to hear it rained, or snowed, or b

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Usage Notes

i Register

In some senses, snow is marked as figuratively, historical. Watch for register when choosing this word.

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