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snow (n. U) - soft white pieces of frozen water that fall from the sky in cold
weather:
- The tops of the mountains were still covered with snow.
- Large flakes of snow are falling.
snow falls
- Some snow is expected to fall on high ground.
- The snow is falling thick.
deep snow - a lot of snow that has fallen on the ground
- Tony and I trudged home through the deep snow.
it’s snowing - use this to say that snow is falling:
- Look! It’s snowing!
- Do you think it’s going to snow tonight?
it’s snowing heavily / hard - snowing a lot
- It snowed heavily all day long.
snowfall (n. C, U) - the amount of snow that falls, or the amount that falls in a
particular period of time:
- Heavy snowfalls are forecast.
- We had a heavy snowfall.
snowdrift (n. C) - a deep mass of snow piled up by the wind:
- It’s snowing hard. There are huge snowdrifts everywhere.
- Snowdrifts surrounded us from all sides.
snowstorm (n. C) - a storm with strong winds and a lot of snow
snowflake (n. C) - a small soft flat piece of frozen water that falls as snow:
- Snowflakes blind your eyes and you can hardly see a yard in front of you.
- Large flakes of snow are falling.
snowdrop (n. C) - a European plant with a small white flower which appears in
early spring:
- If the weather keeps fine till Saturday, we’ll go to the forest to pick snowdrops.
hail (n. U) - frozen raindrops that fall as small balls of ice:
- Hail was battering the roof of the car.
sleet (n. U) - a mixture of snow and rain.
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