adj
Meaning 1
Marked by snow; characterized by snow.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- snowy day
- snowy picture on the television
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
snowy
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
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Pronunciation
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UK: /ˈsnəʊi/
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US: /ˈsnoʊi/
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rhymes with -əʊi
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CMU ARPABET: S N OW1 IY0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
adj
Meaning 2
Covered with snow; snow-covered; besnowed.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- snowy hillside
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adj
Meaning 3
Snow-white in color, white as snow.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: niveous
Antonyms: none provided
name
Meaning 4
A common name for a white dog
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 5
Synonym of snowy owl.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: informal
Examples
- 2008, Jan Dunlap, The Boreal Owl Murder Since then, I've seen a Snowy almost every winter. [...] But I still liked to see them, big and white, gliding noiselessly, gracefully, over open fields looking for rodents.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: snowy owl
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 6
Synonym of snowy egret.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: informal
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: snowy egret
Antonyms: none provided
adjective satellite
Meaning 7
of the white color of snow
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: snow-white
Antonyms: none provided
adjective satellite
Meaning 8
covered with snow
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- snow-clad hills
- snow-covered roads
- a long snowy winter
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: snow-clad, snow-covered
Antonyms: none provided
adjective satellite
Meaning 9
marked by the presence of snow
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- a white Christmas
- the white hills of a northern winter
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: white
Antonyms: none provided
History
Etymology
From Middle English snowy, snawy, from Old English snāwiġ. By surface analysis, snow + -y.
Across languages
Translations
42 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Arabic: ثَلْجِيّ (ṯaljiyy) — marked by snow
- Belarusian: сне́жны (snjéžny) — marked by snow
- Belarusian: сьне́жны (sʹnjéžny) — marked by snow
- Belarusian: снегавы́ (snjehavý) — marked by snow
- Belarusian: сьнегавы́ (sʹnjehavý) — marked by snow
- Bulgarian: сне́жен (snéžen) — marked by snow
- Catalan: nevat — marked by snow
- Catalan: neval — marked by snow
- Czech: sněžný — marked by snow
- Esperanto: neĝa — marked by snow
- Finnish: luminen — marked by snow
- Finnish: lumisateinen — marked by snow
- French: neigeux — marked by snow
- Galician: nevarento — marked by snow
- German: Schnee- — marked by snow
- Greek: χιονισμένος (chionisménos) — marked by snow
- Icelandic: snjóugur — marked by snow
- Icelandic: snjóþungur — marked by snow
- Irish: sneachtúil — marked by snow
- Irish: sneachtach — marked by snow
- Italian: innevato — marked by snow
- Komi Yazva: лөмъя (låmja) — marked by snow
- Latin: nivōsus — marked by snow
- Latin: niveus — marked by snow
- Macedonian: снежен (snežen) — marked by snow
- Māori: pūhuka — marked by snow
- Persian: برفی (barfi) — marked by snow
- Polish: śnieżny — marked by snow
- Portuguese: nevoso — marked by snow
- Portuguese: nevado — marked by snow
- Russian: сне́жный (snéžnyj) — marked by snow
- Russian: снегово́й (snegovój) — marked by snow
- Serbo-Croatian: сне̏жан — marked by snow
- Serbo-Croatian: сње̏жан — marked by snow
- Serbo-Croatian: snȅžan — marked by snow
- Serbo-Croatian: snjȅžan — marked by snow
- Slovak: snežný — marked by snow
- Slovene: snežen — marked by snow
- Spanish: nevado — marked by snow
- Swedish: snöig — marked by snow
- Ukrainian: сні́жний (snížnyj) — marked by snow
- Ukrainian: снігови́й (snihovýj) — marked by snow
Real reading context