cold snap

1. 1.

   a spell of cold weather

   Synonymscold spell

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Questions about cold snap

What does cold snap mean?

cold snap means "a spell of cold weather".

What is another word for cold snap?

Close synonyms include cold spell. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is cold snap a common word?

cold snap is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.