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Definition of 'snow' Random House Webster's College Dictionary 

1. (n.) snow
precipitation in the form of hexagonal crystals of ice, usu. grouped together as snowflakes, formed directly from water vapor freezing in air.

2.  snow
these flakes as forming a layer on the ground.

3.  snow
the fall of these flakes or a storm during which they fall.

4.  snow
something resembling a layer of these flakes in whiteness, softness, or the like.

5.  snow
Literary.

6.  snow
white blossoms.

7.  snow
the white color of snow.

8.  snow
Slang. cocaine or heroin.

9.  snow
white spots or bands on a television screen caused by a weak signal.

10. (v.i.) snow
(of snow) to fall:
It snowed heavily last night.

11.  snow
to descend like snow.

12. (v.t.) snow
to let fall as or like snow.

13.  snow
to cover, obstruct, confine, etc., with or as if with snow:
The town was snowed in by the storm.

14.  snow
Slang.

15.  snow
to persuade or deceive by insincere talk or flattery.

16.  snow
snow under,

17.  snow
to cover with or bury in snow.

18.  snow
to overwhelm.

19.  snow
to defeat overwhelmingly.

Etymology:  (bef. 900; (n.) ME; OE snāw, c. OFris snē, OS, OHG snēo, ON snæmacr;r, Go snaiws, L nix, Gk níps, OCS sn&ehacek;gŭ)

Definition of 'snow' Princeton's WordNet 

1. (noun) snow, snowfall
precipitation falling from clouds in the form of ice crystals

2. (noun) snow
a layer of snowflakes (white crystals of frozen water) covering the ground

3. (noun) Snow, C. P. Snow, Charles Percy Snow, Baron Snow of Leicester
English writer of novels about moral dilemmas in academe (1905-1980)

4. (verb) coke, blow, nose candy, snow, C
street names for cocaine

5. (verb) snow
fall as snow
"It was snowing all night"

6. (verb) bamboozle, snow, hoodwink, pull the wool over someone's eyes, lead by the nose, play false
conceal one's true motives from especially by elaborately feigning good intentions so as to gain an end
"He bamboozled his professors into thinking that he knew the subject well"


Definition of 'snow' Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary 

1. (noun) snow
a white substance that falls from the sky when it is cold
The snow lay thickly on the ground.; Snow had been falling all night.

2. (verb) snow
it snows
(of snow) to fall from the sky
It was snowing heavily.


Definition of 'snow' Webster Dictionary 

1. (noun) snow
a square-rigged vessel, differing from a brig only in that she has a trysail mast close abaft the mainmast, on which a large trysail is hoisted

2. (noun) snow
watery particles congealed into white or transparent crystals or flakes in the air, and falling to the earth, exhibiting a great variety of very beautiful and perfect forms

3. (noun) snow
fig.: Something white like snow, as the white color (argent) in heraldry; something which falls in, or as in, flakes

4. (verb) snow
to fall in or as snow; -- chiefly used impersonally; as, it snows; it snowed yesterday

5. (verb) snow
to scatter like snow; to cover with, or as with, snow


Definition of 'snow' U.S. National Library of Medicine 

1.  snow
Frozen water crystals that fall from the ATMOSPHERE.


Translation of 'snow' Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary 

Sense: frozen water vapour that falls to the ground in soft white flakes
We woke up to find snow on the ground; We were caught in a heavy snow-shower; About 15 centimetres of snow had fallen overnight.

Afrikaans flag Afrikaans: sneeu Arabic flag Arabic: ثَلْج Bulgarian flag Bulgarian: сняг
Brazilian flag Brazilian: neve Czech flag Czech: sníh German flag German: der Schnee
Danish flag Danish: sne; sne- Greek flag Greek: χιόνι Spanish flag Spanish: nieve
Estonian flag Estonian: lumi Farsi flag Farsi: برف Finnish flag Finnish: lumi
French flag French: neige Hebrew flag Hebrew: שֶלֶג Hindi flag Hindi: बर्फ, हिम
Croatian flag Croatian: snijeg Hungarian flag Hungarian:  Indonesian flag Indonesian: salju
Icelandic flag Icelandic: snjór Italian flag Italian: neve Japanese flag Japanese: 
Korean flag Korean:  Lithuanian flag Lithuanian: sniegas Latvian flag Latvian: sniegs
Malay flag Malay: salji Dutch flag Dutch: sneeuw Norwegian flag Norwegian: snø(fall)
Polish flag Polish: śnieg Persian flag Persian: برف Pashto flag Pashto: واوره
Portuguese flag Portuguese: neve Romanian flag Romanian: zăpadă Russian flag Russian: снег
Slovak flag Slovak: sneh Slovenian flag Slovenian: sneg Serbian flag Serbian: sneg
Swedish flag Swedish: snö Thai flag Thai: หิมะ Turkish flag Turkish: kar
Taiwanese flag Taiwanese:  Ukrainian flag Ukrainian: сніг Urdu flag Urdu: آسمان سے گالوں کی شکل میں
Vietnamese flag Vietnamese: tuyết Chinese flag Chinese: 

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