Definitions for Snow

Snow snow

Spelling: [snoh]
IPA: /snoʊ/

Snow is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 27 anagrams from letters in Snow (nosw).

Definitions for Snow

noun

  1. Meteorology. a precipitation in the form of ice crystals, mainly of intricately branched, hexagonal form and often agglomerated into snowflakes, formed directly from the freezing of the water vapor in the air. Compare ice crystals, snow grains, snow pellets.
  2. these flakes as forming a layer on the ground or other surface.
  3. the fall of these flakes or a storm during which these flakes fall.
  4. something resembling a layer of these flakes in whiteness, softness, or the like:
  5. Literary. white blossoms. the white color of snow.
  6. Slang. cocaine or heroin.
  7. white spots or bands on a television screen caused by a weak signal. Compare hash1 (def 5).
  8. Sir Charles Percy (C. P. Snow) 1905–80, English novelist and scientist.

Verb phrases

  1. snow under, to cover with or bury in snow. to overwhelm with a larger amount of something than can be conveniently dealt with. to defeat overwhelmingly.

verb (used with object)

  1. to let fall as or like snow.
  2. Slang. to make an overwhelming impression on: to persuade or deceive:

verb (used without object)

  1. to send down snow; fall as snow.
  2. to descend like snow.

Origin of Snow

before 900; (noun) Middle English; Old English snāw; cognate with Dutch sneeuw, German Schnee, Old Norse snǣr, Gothic snaiws, Latin nix (genitive nivis), Greek níps (accusative nípha), OCS sn

Examples for Snow

The wind was high, but the sun bright, and the snow thawing.

snow fell lightly Wednesday as a League member standing in front of City Hall read the demands.

Old people have a remembrance of a foot of snow which lasted for a week.

In the meantime, just as the bill passed its first hurdle, snow flakes started to fall down on the Capitol.

But mostly they just walked, their faces somber, their hands shaking as the snow began to fall.

There was snow on the ground when I made my last trip to see Sheffield.

Twelve hours afterward the snow, three feet deep on a level, has melted.

A combination of crocuses and snow on the ground had given her an inspiration for a gown.

Not quite, but at one point the temperature registered 29 below zero, with 21 inches of snow.

Above, below, the rose of snow, Twined with her blushing foe we spread.

Word Value for Snow
Scrable

7

Words with friends

8

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