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snow
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- pronunciation:
- sno
- parts of speech:
- noun, verb
- features:
- Word Builder, Word Explorer
| part of speech: |
noun |
| definition 1: |
Snow is soft, white pieces of frozen water that fall down from the sky. Snow falls in the same way that drops of rain fall. Each small piece of frozen water is called a snowflake.
The snow was coming down really fast this afternoon when the buses took us home early.
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| definition 2: |
Snow is also what we call the many white bits of frozen water after they have settled on top of each other on the ground or other surface.
The snow looks so pretty on the branches of the trees.
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| part of speech: |
verb |
| inflections: |
snows, snowing, snowed |
| definition 1: |
When we say it is snowing, we mean that snow is falling from the sky.
It was snowing hard, and the cars in front of Aaron's house were going very slowly.It snowed a lot yesterday, and we went down the hill in the park on our sleds.
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| definition 2: |
When a car gets snowed in, it cannot move anywhere because there is too much snow around it. If a house gets snowed under, it means that the house gets covered with snow.
The blizzard snowed the city in for two days.My aunt lives out in the country, and she was snowed in without electricity for days after the big snowstorm. |
| related words: |
trick |
Word Builder: snow +
- snowball:
a ball made of snow.
- snowfall:
the amount of snow that falls.
- snowman:
large balls of snow made to look like a person.
- snowstorm:
a storm in which a lot of snow falls.
- snowy:
full of snow.
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