Definition of
Snow
- (noun, artifact) street names for cocaine
- (noun, person) English writer of novels about moral dilemmas in academe (1905-1980)
- (noun, phenomenon) precipitation falling from clouds in the form of ice crystals
- (noun, substance) a layer of snowflakes (white crystals of frozen water) covering the ground
- (verb, communication) conceal one's true motives from especially by elaborately feigning good intentions so as to gain an end
- (verb, weather) fall as snow
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Synonyms of Snow
bamboozle, baron snow of leicester, blow, c, c. p. snow, charles percy snow, coke, hoodwink, lead by the nose, nose candy, play false, pull the wool over someone's eyes, snowfall
Alternate forms of Snow
Hyponyms: corn snow, crud, flurry, snow flurry, whiteout
Hypernyms: betray, cocain, cocaine, come down, deceive, downfall, fall, layer, lead astray, precipitate, precipitation
Origin of the word Snow
- O.E. snaw "snow," from P.Gmc. *snaiwaz (cf. O.S., O.H.G. sneo, O.Fris., M.L.G. sne, M.Du. snee, Du. sneeuw, Ger. Schnee, O.N. snjor, Goth. snaiws "snow"), from PIE *sniegwh-/*snoigwho- (cf. Gk. nipha, L. nix (gen. nivis), O.Ir. snechta, Welsh nyf, Lith. sniegas, O.Pru… more
- c.1300, replacing O.E. sniwan, which would have yielded modern snew (which existed as a parallel form until 17c. and, in Yorkshire, even later), from the root of snow (n.).
"Also ?ikke as snow ?at snew,Or al so hail ?at stormes blew."[Robert Mannyng of Brunne, transl. Wace's "Chronicle," c.1330]
The figurative sense of "overwhelm" is 1880, … more
via Online Etymology Dictionary, ©2001 Douglas Harper
Words that sound like Snow
s/n, saame, saami, sachem, sachsen, sage hen, sagina, saginaw, saigon, sajama, sam, saman, same, sami, samia, samoa, samoan, sana, sana'a, sanaa, sane, saone, sashimi, sauna, sawan, sawm, saxon, saxony, scam, scammony, scan, scene, schema, scheme, schism, schizogony, schmo, schumann, schwann, sciaena, scion, scission, scone, scum, scummy, sea anemone, sea mew, sea onion, seam, seaman
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