Meaning

noun precipitation falling from clouds in the form of ice crystals

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

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

originThe noun is derived from Middle English snaw, snou, snow (“snow; accumulation of snow; snowfall; snowstorm; whiteness”), from Old English snāw (“snow”), from Proto-West Germanic *snaiw (“snow”), from Proto-Germanic *snaiwaz (“snow”), from Proto-Indo-European *snóygʷʰos (“snow”), from *sneygʷʰ- (“to snow”). The verb is derived from Middle English snouen (“to snow; (figurative) to shower”), from…

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