snow

1. 1.

   precipitation falling from clouds in the form of ice crystals

   Synonymssnowfall

   Broaderprecipitation

   Narrowerflurrywhiteout

   Partssnowflake
2. 2.

   a layer of snowflakes (white crystals of frozen water) covering the ground

   Broaderlayer

   Narrowercorn snowcrud
3. 3.

   English writer of novels about moral dilemmas in academe (1905-1980)

   SynonymsC. P. SnowCharles Percy SnowBaron Snow of Leicester

   Broaderwriter
4. 4.

   street names for cocaine

   Synonymscokeblownose candyC

   Broadercocaine

1. 1.

   fall as snow

   “It was snowing all night”

   Broaderprecipitate
2. 2.

   conceal one's true motives from especially by elaborately feigning good intentions so as to gain an end

   “He bamboozled his professors into thinking that he knew the subject well”

   Synonymsbamboozlehoodwinkpull the wool over someone's eyeslead by the noseplay false

   Broaderdeceive

Other forms of snow

plural

snows·

past tense

snowed·

present participle

snowing·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about snow

What does snow mean?

snow means "precipitation falling from clouds in the form of ice crystals". That is the primary sense; the word has 6 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in snow?

snow has 1 syllable: snow. In IPA it is /ˈsnoʊ/.

What is another word for snow?

Close synonyms include snowfall, C. P. Snow, Charles Percy Snow, Baron Snow of Leicester, coke. 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 snow a common word?

snow is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.