snow - Meaning and Examples

Meaning of 'snow' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Snow

[ n.]

- A square-rigged vessel, differing from a brig only in that she has a trysail mast close abaft the mainmast, on which a large trysail is hoisted.
- Watery particles congealed into white or transparent crystals or flakes in the air, and falling to the earth, exhibiting a great variety of very beautiful and perfect forms.
- Fig.: Something white like snow, as the white color (argent) in heraldry; something which falls in, or as in, flakes.

2 . Snow

[ v. i.]

- To fall in or as snow; -- chiefly used impersonally; as, it snows; it snowed yesterday.

3 . Snow

[ v. t.]

- To scatter like snow; to cover with, or as with, snow.

Meaning of 'snow' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . snow

[ v]

Meaning (1):
- conceal one's true motives from especially by elaborately feigning good intentions so as to gain an end

Example in sentence:

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

Meaning (2):
- fall as snow

Example in sentence:

It was snowing all night

Nearby Words:

snob snobbery snobbish snobbishness snobbism snobby snobling snobocracy snod snoff

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