SNOW


Meaning of SNOW in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ snoʊ ]

( snows, snowing, snowed)

Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English.

1.

Snow consists of a lot of soft white bits of frozen water that fall from the sky in cold weather.

In Mid-Wales six inches of snow blocked roads...

They tramped through the falling snow.

N-UNCOUNT

2.

You can refer to a great deal of snow in an area as the snows .

...the first snows of winter...

N-PLURAL

3.

When it snows , snow falls from the sky.

It had been snowing all night.

VERB : it V

4.

If someone snows you, they persuade you to do something or convince you of something by flattering or deceiving you. ( AM INFORMAL )

I’d been a fool letting him snow me with his big ideas.

VERB : V n

5.

see also snowed in , snowed under

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