frost snow

Questions about frost snow

What does frost snow mean?

frost snow means "small crystals of ice".

What is another word for frost snow?

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

frost snow 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.