OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 3944

snow

/snəʊ̯/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
nevada • nieves
The partly frozen, crystalline state of water that falls from the atmosphere as precipitation in flakes; also, the falling of such flakes; and the accumulation of them on the ground or on objects as a white layer.
The blasts of autumn drive the winged seeds / Over the earth,—next come the snows, and rain, / And frosts, and storms, which dreary winter leads / Out of his Scythian cave, a savag…
We have had several heavy snows this year.
nieve
Something resembling snow (etymology 1, sense 1) in appearance or color.
I took my TV over on the first trip. I got a beauty. It's four years old, color, but when I had a little snow and asked the repairman to come in, he told me never, never turn this…
Near-synonym: static
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