Snow

Pronunciation

• UK IPA: /snəʊ/
• US enPR: snō, IPA: /snoÊŠ/
• Rhymes: -əʊ

From Middle English snow, snaw, from Old English snāw ("snow"), from Proto-Germanic *snaiwaz ("snow"), from Proto-Indo-European *snóygʷʰos ("snow"). Cognate with Scots snaw ("snow"), West Frisian snie ("snow"), Dutch sneeuw ("snow"), German Schnee ("snow"), Danish sne ("snow"), Norwegian snø ("snow"), Swedish snö ("snow"), Icelandic snjór ("snow"), Latin nix ("snow"), Russian снег, Armenian ձյուն (dzyun), Ancient Greek νίφα, dialectal Albanian nehë ("place where the snow melts"). Also, from the same Indo-European root *sneygʷʰ- ("to snow") comes English snew.

Full definition of snow

Noun

1. (uncountable) The frozen, crystalline state of water that falls as precipitation.
• 1928, A. A. Milne, The House at Pooh Corner,The wind had dropped, and the snow, tired of rushing around in circles trying to catch itself up, now fluttered gently down until it found a place on which to rest.''
2. (uncountable) Any similar frozen form of a gas or liquid.
• 2008, Neal Asher, "Alien Archaeology"Clad in a coldsuit Jael trudged through a thin layer of CO₂ snow ...
3. (uncountable) A shade of the color white.
4. (uncountable) The area of frequency on a television which has no programmes broadcast in analogue sets, the image is created by the Electrical noise.
5. (uncountable, slang) Cocaine.
6. (countable) A snowfall; a blanket of frozen, crystalline water.We have had several heavy snows this year.

Derived terms

Verb

1. (impersonal) To have snow fall from the sky.It is snowing.It started to snow.
2. (colloquial) To hoodwink someone, especially by presenting confusing information.
3. (poker) To bluff in draw poker by refusing to draw any cards.

Derived terms

• oversnow
• snowed
• snow in
• snowing
• snow out
• snow under
• snow up
• Snow White

Low German Snaue, or Dutch snaauw, from Low German Snau ("a snout, a beak").

Noun

1. (nautical) 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.

Anagrams

• nows, owns, sown, wons