snow
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.
Noun 2 meanings
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.
Something resembling snow (etymology 1, noun sense 1) in appearance or color.
“apple snow lemon snow”
Verb 4 meanings
Preceded by the dummy subject it: to have snow (noun etymology 1, noun sense 1) fall from the atmosphere.
“It is snowing. It started to snow.”
To cause (something) to fall like snow.
To cover or scatter (a place or thing) with, or as if with, snow.
To cause (hair) to turn white; also, to cause (someone) to have white hair.
Adjective 1 meaning
Done because the alternate outcome is very unlikely to pass.
Etymology
The noun is derived from Middle English snaw, snou, snow (“snow; accumulation of snow; snowfall; snowstorm; whiteness”), from Old English snāw (“snow”), from Proto-West Germanic *snaiw (“snow”), from Proto-Germanic *snaiwaz (“snow”), from Proto-Indo-European *snóygʷʰos (“snow”), from *sneygʷʰ- (“to snow”).
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SNOW at a glance
SNOW has 4 letters and scores 7 points in Scrabble (S 1 + N 1 + O 1 + W 4) and 8 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #2,177 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
Rhymes with snow
All rhymes- KNOW11
- MINNOW11
- WINNOW12
- ENOW7
- PIKEMINNOW21
- FOREKNOW18
- ACKNOW15
- ANOW7
- BESNOW11
- ERENOW9
- GNOW8
- MISKNOW16
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