Meaning

8 senses
  1. (impersonal, intransitive)Preceded by the dummy subject it: to have snow (noun etymology 1, noun sense 1) fall from the atmosphere.

    It is snowing. It started to snow.

    schneien

    снежи́тьsnežítʹ

    сніжи́тиsnižýty

    fall as snow

  2. Preceded by the dummy subject it: to have snow (noun etymology 1, noun sense 1) fall from the atmosphere.

    (also, figuratively, impersonal, intransitive)Of a thing: to fall like snow.

  3. (transitive)To cause (something) to fall like snow.

  4. (transitive)To cover or scatter (a place or thing) with, or as if with, snow.

  5. (figuratively, transitive)To cause (hair) to turn white; also, to cause (someone) to have white hair.

  6. (figuratively, slang, transitive)To convince or hoodwink (someone), especially by presenting confusing information or through flattery.

    обманыватьobmanyvatʹ

  7. To convince or hoodwink (someone), especially by presenting confusing information or through flattery.

    (figuratively, slang, transitive)To bluff (an opponent) in draw poker by playing a hand which has no value, or by refusing to draw any cards.

  8. (US, figuratively, slang, transitive)To cause (someone) to be under the effect of a drug; to dope, to drug.

Examples

2453 sentences
  1. The mountain is covered with snow.

    Гора вкрита снігом. — Internecivus

    ruГора укрыта снегом. — al_ex_an_der

    deDer Berg ist mit Schnee bedeckt. — lilygilder

  2. That mountain is covered with snow.

    На горі лежить сніг. — deniko

    ruЭта гора покрыта снегом. — marafon

    deDieser Berg ist schneebedeckt. — Dejo

  3. We got lost in the snow.

    Ми заблукали в снігу. — deniko

    ruМы заблудились в снегу. — Svetislava

  4. It looks like snow, doesn't it?

    Схоже на сніг, правда ж? — deniko

    ruСнег, что ли, а? — marafon

    deEs sieht aus wie Schnee, oder? — Wolf

  5. The ground is covered with snow.

    Земля вкрита снiгом. — rmdas

    ruЗемля покрыта снегом. — drnm2

    deDer Boden ist schneebedeckt. — MUIRIEL

Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
have snow fall from the atmosphere:
Русский
By meaning 2
have snow fall from the atmosphere:
to convince or hoodwink (someone) — see also convince, hoodwink:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
have snow fall from the atmosphere:

Origin

The noun is derived from Middle English snaw, snou, snow (“snow; accumulation of snow; sno

The 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”).

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Forms

snows, snowing, snowed, snowed
Base formsnow · to snow
3rd person singularsnows
Present participlesnowing
Past simplesnowed
Past participlesnowed

regular

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theysnow
he, she, itsnows

Past simpleLesson

all personssnowed

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave snowed
he, she, ithas snowed

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill snow

Phrasal verbs

6 phrasal verbs

Synonyms

5 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

29 related words

Collocations

12 patterns
  • covered with snow
  • in the snow
  • snow tomorrow
  • the heavy snow
  • lot of snow
  • heavy snow
  • snow tonight
  • going to snow
  • the snow off
  • shoveling snow
  • snow last year
  • of the snow

See also

neighbours in the dictionary

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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