diamond dust

Questions about diamond dust

What does diamond dust mean?

diamond dust means "small crystals of ice".

What is another word for diamond dust?

Close synonyms include ice crystal, snow mist, poudrin, ice needle, frost snow. 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 diamond dust a common word?

diamond dust is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.