snow
precipitation falling from clouds in the form of ice crystals
How often you will meet it
Rank 1,144 of 71,295 words measured. It occurs 16,172 times across 155,139 chapters — 0.008% of every word in the library.
What it means
noun
- precipitation falling from clouds in the form of ice crystals also: snowfall
- a layer of snowflakes (white crystals of frozen water) covering the ground
- English writer of novels about moral dilemmas in academe (1905-1980) also: C. P. Snow, Charles Percy Snow, Baron Snow of Leicester
- street names for cocaine also: coke, blow, nose candy, C
verb
- fall as snow It was snowing all night
- conceal one's true motives from especially by elaborately feigning good intentions so as to gain an end also: bamboozle, hoodwink, pull the wool over someone's eyes, lead by the nose, play false He bamboozled his professors into thinking that he knew the subject well
snow in real books
Each sentence below was written by a published author and is taken from a different book in our library. Open one to read the passage it came from, with narration.
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I see naught save the snow and starry sky.
The White Christmas and other Merry · Walter Ben Hare · Chapter 1
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The snow fell hissing in the brine, And the billows frothed like yeast.
The Complete Poetical Works of Henry · Henry Wadsworth Longfellow · Chapter 1
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This time the wind did not cease with the return of the snow.
Ethan Frome · Edith Wharton · Chapter 1
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The snow that sifted in through the loose sash lay unmelted on the sill.
Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch · Alice Caldwell Hegan Rice · Chapter 1
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How often was he appalled by some shrub covered with snow, which, like a sheeted spectre, beset his very path!
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow · Washington Irving · Chapter 1