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Meaning of snow in English
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/ snoʊ /snow noun ( WEATHER )
Add to word list Add to word list A1 [ U ] the small , soft , white pieces of ice that sometimes fall from the sky when it is cold , or the white layer on the ground and other surfaces that it forms : Outside the snow began to fall . Let's go and play in the snow! A blanket of snow lay on the ground . Her hair was jet-black , her lips ruby-red and her skin as white as snow. Hype Photography/Stone/GettyImages [ C ] a single fall of snow: We haven't had many heavy snows this winter . More examples Fewer examples The snow came down during the night . By morning there was a light covering of snow. Many villages have been cut off by the heavy snow. There was a dusting of snow on the lawn . Snow had been falling steadily all day . SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases Precipitation: snow & ice anti-icing be snowed in idiom be snowed up idiom boilerplate crevasse de-icer drifting floe hailstorm iceberg icy precipitation sleety snow cave snow day snow devil snow-covered snowdrift snowy sprinkle See more results »snow noun ( DRUG )
[ U ] slang → cocaine SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases Specific types of drug acaricide alprazolam amnesiac anaphrodisiac anti-AIDS digoxin dissociative E, e ecstasy gas and air GHB heroin roach spice SSRI steroid tetrahydrocannabinol truth serum visionary Xanax See more results » snow verb ukYour browser doesn't support HTML5 audio
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/ snoʊ /snow verb ( WEATHER )
A2 [ I ] If it snows, snow falls from the sky : It's snowing. It's starting to snow. It had snowed overnight and a thick white layer covered the ground . More examples Fewer examples It had snowed heavily during the night and in the morning the garden was a white fairyland . Do you think it will snow this Christmas ? I love it when it snows. It very rarely snows in October . It snowed heavily all day . SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases Precipitation: snow & ice anti-icing be snowed in idiom be snowed up idiom boilerplate crevasse de-icer drifting floe hailstorm iceberg icy precipitation sleety snow cave snow day snow devil snow-covered snowdrift snowy sprinkle See more results »snow verb ( TRICK )
[ T ] US informal to deceive or trick someone by talking a lot or by giving them a lot of information : It felt like she was snowing us with statistics . SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases Lies, lying & hypocrisy a pack of lies idiom artifice bad faith black is white idiom cakeism fabricator falsehood falsification feed someone a line idiom fib myth mythologically mythologize perjure someone can talk! idiom untruthfully venality washing weasel words white lie See more results »Idioms
be snowed in be snowed under (with something ) be snowed up (Definition of snow from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)snow | American Dictionary
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/ snoʊ /snow noun [C/U] ( WEATHER )
Add to word list Add to word list water that falls from clouds as soft , white flakes (= thin pieces ) of ice when it is cold , or an amount of these flakes : [ U ] Six inches of snow fell overnight . [ C ] We have had several snows in the past week .snowy
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/ ˈsnoʊ·i / It was one of the snowiest winters on record . snow verb usYour browser doesn't support HTML5 audio
/ snoʊ /snow verb ( DECEIVE )
[ T ] infml to deceive someone with charming , persuasive talk : This guy is very smooth and can snow anybody.snow verb ( WEATHER )
[ I ] If it snows, snow falls from the sky : It snowed all weekend .Idiom
snowed underPhrasal verb
be snowed in (Definition of snow from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)snow | Business English
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be snowed under Add to word list Add to word list to have more work than you can deal with: be snowed under with/by sth We have been snowed under with phone calls all day . One of her major concerns is to ensure that her boss never gets snowed under. (Definition of snow from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary © Cambridge University Press) What is the pronunciation of snow ?Translations of snow
in Chinese (Traditional) 天氣, 雪, 積雪… See more in Chinese (Simplified) 天气, 雪, 积雪… See more in Spanish nieve, nevada, cocaína… See more in Portuguese neve, cocaina, nevar… See more in more languages in Marathi in Japanese in Turkish in French in Catalan in Dutch in Tamil in Hindi in Gujarati in Danish in Swedish in Malay in German in Norwegian in Urdu in Ukrainian in Russian in Telugu in Arabic in Bengali in Czech in Indonesian in Thai in Vietnamese in Polish in Korean in Italian हिम / बर्फ, हिमवृष्टी होणे… See more 雪, 雪が降る, 雪（ゆき）… See more kar, kar yağmak… See more neige [feminine], neige, neiger… See more neu, nevar… See more sneeuw, sneeuwen… See more சிறிய, மென்மையான, வெள்ளை பனித் துளிகள் சில நேரங்களில் அது குளிர்ச்சியாக இருக்கும்போது வானத்திலிருந்து விழும்… See more बर्फ, बर्फ गिरना, हिमपात… See more બરફ, હિમ, હિમ વર્ષા… See more sne, sne-… See more snö, snöa… See more salji, salji turun… See more der Schnee, schneien… See more snø [masculine], snø(fall), snø… See more برف (پہاڑوں پر گرنے والی), برف باری ہونا… See more сніг, вживається в безособових зворотах: іде сніг… See more снег… See more మంచు, మంచు కురవడం… See more ثَلْج, إنَّها تُثْلِج… See more তুষার, বরফ, ছোটো… See more sníh, sněžit… See more salju, turun salju… See more หิมะ, (หิมะ) ตก… See more tuyết, tuyết rơi… See more śnieg, padać… See more 눈, 눈이 오다… See more neve, nevicare… See more Need a translator?Get a quick, free translation!
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