snowy

CEFRA1

/ˈsnəʊi/

adjective · noun

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In plain English

  1. 01

    adjective

    Covered with or full of snow.

  2. 02

    adjective

    Extra detail

    Covered with snow; snow-covered; besnowed.

Examples

  • As the weather was snowy, we went skiing.

  • This is snowy weather is giving me cabin fever.

At a glance

Sits at A1 on the CEFR scale

Senses
5
Parts of speech
2
Citations
5
Synonyms
3

Also pronounced

  • /ˈsnoʊi/

Deep Dive

adjective

Extra meanings

  1. Snow-white in color, white as snow.

  2. Marked by snow; characterized by snow.

noun

Extra meaning

  1. Synonym of snowy owl.

More examples

In context

  • snowy picture on the television

  • snowy hillside

  • 2008, Jan Dunlap, The Boreal Owl Murder Since then, I've seen a Snowy almost every winter. […] But I still liked to see them, big and white, gliding noiselessly, gracefully, over open fields looking for rodents.

Synonyms

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Origin

adjective

From Middle English snowy, snawy, from Old English snāwiġ. By surface analysis, snow + -y.