Meaning

(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..

Definitions by Sense

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

Example Sentences

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.

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: […]

The top of this Peake [Teide on Tenerife] or Pyramide […] by reaſon of their rare height and affinitie vvith the middle Aerie Region are ſeldome vvithout Snovv.

He [Ben Jonson] vvas not onely a profeſſed Imitator of Horace, but a learned Plagiary of all the others; you track him every vvhere in their Snovv: […]

Hovv, by the fineſt art, the native robe / To vveave; hovv, vvhite as hyperborean ſnovv, / To form the lucid lavvn; […]

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.

Word Forms

• snows
• snowing
• snowed
• snew
• snown
• no-table-tags
• glossary
• snow
• snowest
• snowedst
• snoweth
• -
• snaw

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Use snow when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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