ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Snow

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Pronunciation /snəʊ̯/ · Part of speech noun

Quick meaning: Snow is a noun meaning Something resembling snow (etymology 1, noun sense 1) in appearance or color.

Meaning

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

More Meanings

  1. (intransitive, impersonal) Preceded by the dummy subject it: to have snow (noun etymology 1, noun sense 1) fall from the atmosphere.
  2. To cause (something) to fall like snow.
  3. To cover or scatter (a place or thing) with, or as if with, snow.
  4. To cause (hair) to turn white; also, to cause (someone) to have white hair.
  5. To convince or hoodwink (someone), especially by presenting confusing information or through flattery.
  6. To cause (someone) to be under the effect of a drug; to dope, to drug.
  7. (uncountable) 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.

Example Sentences

Snow is white, / And lieth in the dike. And every man lets it lye.
Some vapours that aſcend to great heights, vvill be frozen into ſnovv; […]
A mighty Senate;—some, whose white hair shone / Like mountain snow, mild, beautiful, and blind.
Hovv, by the fineſt art, the native robe / To vveave; hovv, vvhite as hyperborean ſnovv, / To form the lucid lavvn; […]

Word Forms

Synonyms for snow

Depending on context, synonyms include coke, hoodwink, bamboozle, snowfall, cocain, cocaine.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include snowfall, coke, cocaine, c, hoodwink, bamboozle.

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