DEFINITIONnoun1 atmospheric water vapor frozen into ice crystals and falling in light white flakes or lying on the ground as a white layer: we were trudging through deep snow | the first snow of the season.2 something that resembles snow in color or texture, in particular:• a mass of flickering white spots on a television or radar screen, caused by interference or a poor signal.• informal cocaine.• a dessert or other dish resembling snow: vanilla snow.• [ with modifier ] a frozen gas resembling snow: carbon dioxide snow.
verb1 [ no obj. ] (it snows, it is snowing, etc.) snow falls: it's not snowing so heavily now.• (be snowed in) be confined or blocked by a large quantity of snow: I was snowed in for a week.2 [ with obj. ] informal mislead or charm (someone) with elaborate and insincere words: they would snow the public into believing that all was well.
PHRASAL VERBS
be snowed underbe overwhelmed with a large quantity of something, esp. work: he's been snowed under with urgent cases.
DERIVATIVES
snowless adjective.snowlike|-ˌlīk|adjective
ORIGIN Old English snāw, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch sneeuw and German Schnee, from anIndo-European root shared by Latin nix, niv- and Greek nipha .
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