Meaning of "snow" in the English dictionary

ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD SNOW

Old English snāw; related to Old Norse snjōr, Gothic snaiws, Old High German snēo, Greek nipha.

Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.

PRONUNCIATION OF SNOW

snow  [snəʊ]

GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF SNOW

Snow is a verb and can also act as a noun.

A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb snow in English.

WHAT DOES SNOW MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Snow

Snow is precipitation in the form of flakes of crystalline water ice that falls from clouds. Since snow is composed of small ice particles, it is a granular material. It has an open and therefore soft, white, and fluffy structure, unless subjected to external pressure. Snowflakes come in a variety of sizes and shapes. Types that fall in the form of a ball due to melting and refreezing, rather than a flake, are known as hail, ice pellets or snow grains. The process of precipitating snow is called snowfall. Snowfall tends to form within regions of upward movement of air around a type of low-pressure system known as an extratropical cyclone. Snow can fall poleward of these systems' associated warm fronts and within their comma head precipitation patterns. Where relatively warm water bodies are present, for example because of water evaporation from lakes, lake-effect snowfall becomes a concern downwind of the warm lakes within the cold cyclonic flow around the backside of extratropical cyclones. Lake-effect snowfall can be heavy locally. Thundersnow is possible within a cyclone's comma head and within lake effect precipitation bands.

Definition of snow in the English dictionary

The first definition of snow in the dictionary is precipitation from clouds in the form of flakes of ice crystals formed in the upper atmosphere related adjective niveous. Other definition of snow is a layer of snowflakes on the ground. Snow is also a fall of such precipitation.

CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO SNOW

PRESENT

Present

I snow

you snow

he/she/it snows

we snow

you snow

they snow

Present continuous

I am snowing

you are snowing

he/she/it is snowing

we are snowing

you are snowing

they are snowing

Present perfect

I have snowed

you have snowed

he/she/it has snowed

we have snowed

you have snowed

they have snowed

Present perfect continuous

I have been snowing

you have been snowing

he/she/it has been snowing

we have been snowing

you have been snowing

they have been snowing

Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

PAST

Past

I snowed

you snowed

he/she/it snowed

we snowed

you snowed

they snowed

Past continuous

I was snowing

you were snowing

he/she/it was snowing

we were snowing

you were snowing

they were snowing

Past perfect

I had snowed

you had snowed

he/she/it had snowed

we had snowed

you had snowed

they had snowed

Past perfect continuous

I had been snowing

you had been snowing

he/she/it had been snowing

we had been snowing

you had been snowing

they had been snowing

Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future

I will snow

you will snow

he/she/it will snow

we will snow

you will snow

they will snow

Future continuous

I will be snowing

you will be snowing

he/she/it will be snowing

we will be snowing

you will be snowing

they will be snowing

Future perfect

I will have snowed

you will have snowed

he/she/it will have snowed

we will have snowed

you will have snowed

they will have snowed

Future perfect continuous

I will have been snowing

you will have been snowing

he/she/it will have been snowing

we will have been snowing

you will have been snowing

they will have been snowing

The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional

I would snow

you would snow

he/she/it would snow

we would snow

you would snow

they would snow

Conditional continuous

I would be snowing

you would be snowing

he/she/it would be snowing

we would be snowing

you would be snowing

they would be snowing

Conditional perfect

I would have snow

you would have snow

he/she/it would have snow

we would have snow

you would have snow

they would have snow

Conditional perfect continuous

I would have been snowing

you would have been snowing

he/she/it would have been snowing

we would have been snowing

you would have been snowing

they would have been snowing

Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative

you snow
we let´s snow
you snow

The imperative is used to form commands or requests.

NONFINITE VERB FORMS

Infinitive

to snow

Past participle

snowed

Present Participle

snowing

Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

SYNONYMS OF «SNOW»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «snow» and belong to the same grammatical category.

synonyms of snow

blizzard · sleet · snowdrift · snowfall · snowstorm

TRANSLATION OF SNOW

Find out the translation of snow to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of snow from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «snow» in English.

• Translator English - Chinese: 雪
• Translator English - Spanish: nieve
• English: snow
• Translator English - Hindi: बर्फ
• Translator English - Arabic: ثَلْج
• Translator English - Russian: снег
• Translator English - Portuguese: neve
• Translator English - Bengali: তুষার
• Translator English - French: neige
• Translator English - Malay: Salji
• Translator English - German: Schnee
• Translator English - Japanese: 雪
• Translator English - Korean: 눈
• Translator English - Javanese: Salju
• Translator English - Vietnamese: tuyết
• Translator English - Tamil: பனி
• Translator English - Marathi: हिमवर्षाव
• Translator English - Turkish: kar
• Translator English - Italian: neve
• Translator English - Polish: śnieg
• Translator English - Ukrainian: сніг
• Translator English - Romanian: zăpadă
• Translator English - Greek: χιόνι
• Translator English - Afrikaans: sneeu
• Translator English - Swedish: snö
• Translator English - Norwegian: snø

10 QUOTES WITH «SNOW»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word snow.

1

Roman Abramovich

I live on a plane. I like to visit London. If I had to think where I could live if not Moscow, London would be my first choice, and second would be New York. In Moscow I feel most comfortable. I'm used to four different seasons; it's difficult for people in London to understand. People brought up in Russia like my kids want to play in the snow.

2

William Henry Ashley

Snow is so common that I have omitted to note its falling at least two days out of Three.

3

William Henry Ashley

The principal or highest part of the mountain having changed its direction to east and west, I ascended it in such manner as to leave its most elevated ranges to the south and travelled north west over a very rough and broken country generally covered with snow.

4

Dan Aykroyd

I grew up on the edge of a national park in Canada - timberwolves, creeks, snow drifts.

5

Mark Barrowcliffe

The rainforest has an intense beauty that at times seems almost suffocating. The jungle is one twig short of impenetrable, and the greenery seems to crowd in on you with a sensation that has been described as akin to snow blindness.

6

Roy Bean

And finally Winter, with its bitin', whinin' wind, and all the land will be mantled with snow.

7

Dan Buettner

Inconvenience yourself: ditch the remote, the garage door opener, the leaf-blower; buy a bike, broom, rake, and snow shovel.

8

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Advice is like snow - the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper in sinks into the mind.

9

Charles Caleb Colton

Corruption is like a ball of snow, once it's set a rolling it must increase.

10

Tre Cool

I wanna survive an avalanche. I wanna be one of those people a dog finds buried under a ton of snow, almost dying of starvation.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SNOW»

Discover the use of snow in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to snow and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.

Snow

Dread, yearning, identity, intrigue, the lethal chemistry between secular doubt and Islamic fanaticism–these are the elements that Orhan Pamuk anneals in this masterful, disquieting novel.

Orhan Pamuk, 2006

Smilla's Sense of Snow: A Novel

Smilla's Sense of Snow presents one of the toughest heroines in modern fiction.

Peter Høeg, 2010

Snow: with audio recording

We. a? The temperature has to be thirty-two degrees or colder for water to turn into ice. Every snowflake has six sides. Every snowflake can contain as many as fifty crystals of ice. Trillions and trillions of snowflakes fall in a single storm, but the  ...

Marion Dane Bauer, 2013

Snow Crash

Snow Crash is a mind-altering romp through a future America so bizarre, so outrageous... you'll recognize it immediately. From the Paperback edition.

Neal Stephenson, 2003

Snow

Introduces snow, discussing where it comes from, how it is produced, snowflakes, ice, the polar regions, and fun things to do in the snow.

Honor Head, 2007

Waiting for Snow in Havana: Confessions of a Cuban Boy

A survivor of the Cuban Revolution recounts his pre-war childhood as the religiously devout son of a judge, and describes the conflict's violent and irrevocable impact on his friends, family, and native land.

Carlos Eire, 2004

Snow Falling on Cedars

A “finely wrought, flawlessly written” novel (New York Times Book Review), set on a small island in the Puget Sound, that is “at various moments a courtroom drama, an interracial love story, and a war chronicle” (San Francisco ...

David Guterson, 1994

Snow

"Simple text and full-color photographs describe snow and how it affects people"--

Erin Edison, 2011

Snow

Snow makes a wonderful playland for boys and girls

‎1962

Snow Treasure

An actual incident in which Norwegian children smuggled gold past the Nazis is the basis for this story of courage and patriotism.

Marie McSwigan, 1942

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SNOW»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term snow is used in the context of the following news items.

Here Are All the Jon Snow Conspiracy Theories

Fans were very unhappy to see Jon Snow stabbed in the back (literally) on last night's season finale of Game of Thrones. But there may still be hope. While the ... «TIME, Jun 15»

Rapid City, SD socked with a foot of snow

The National Weather Service says as of late Sunday afternoon, Lead reports 18 inches of snow, Deerfield 17 inches and downtown Rapid City 13.5 inches. «KARE, May 15»

California's Snowpack at Record Early-April Low; Sierra Snow …

There's hardly any snowpack on California's Sierra Nevada. That's why Governor Jerry Brown has imposed mandatory restrictions on water use. Matt Sampson ... «The Weather Channel, Apr 15»

Iditarod start moved north due to lack of snow

A lack of snow has forced the Iditarod dog sled race to relocate its traditional start on Monday from Anchorage to Fairbanks, for the second time in the history of ... «Al Jazeera America, Mar 15»

Snow ends as a deep freeze takes over, numerous icy spots likely …

7:15 p.m. update: Snow is pretty much done. A straggler band (or two) of light activity is still pushing through and may cause an additional dusting or a bit more. «Washington Post, Mar 15»

More Snow and Ice Impact Weekend Plans; New Storm On the Way

Another blast of snow and ice impacted weekend plans from the Midwest to the Northeast on Sunday. A half foot of snow was reported from central Missouri to ... «ABC News, Mar 15»

Winter Storm Remus: Snow from the Deep South to the Northeast …

Winter Storm Remus will continue today to bring snow to areas along the ... Winter Storm Remus brought snow as far south as Dallas and Birmingham to the ... «The Weather Channel, Feb 15»

Denver weather: Updated models show up to 16 inches of snow will …

A winter storm watch is in effect for Denver from Friday afternoon through late Sunday night as a major weather system — boasting the potential to drop up to 16 ... «The Denver Post, Feb 15»

Bitter cold follows blizzard's blowing snow, damaging winds

BOSTON —Snow and dangerously high winds howled in Massachusetts for the fourth time in less than a month with snowfall rates of 2 to 4 inches an hour and ... «WCVB Boston, Feb 15»

High-Impact Snow Eyes Washington

So far this winter, Washington has picked up 3.7 inches of snow, a far cry from the average seasonal snow to-date of 11.8 inches. Quickly, the 8 inch snow ... «WJLA, Feb 15»