snow

snow
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noun
ADJECTIVE
heavy, thick
fine, light

The plants were covered in fine snow.

deep
wet
compacted, crisp, frozen, hard, icy, packed

The crisp snow crunched as we walked through it.

The frozen snow was treacherous to walk on.

powder, powdery, slushy, soft
drifting, driving, falling, swirling

They struggled on through the driving snow.

melted, melting
fresh, freshly fallen, new, newly fallen
first

the first snow of winter

spring, winter
artificial, fake

They had to use artificial snow at the Winter Olympics.

dirty
… OF SNOW
flake
fall (esp. BrE), flurry
patch
dusting

There was a light dusting of snow on the ground.

blanket, carpet, layer
pile

There were great big piles of snow on the road outside.

foot, inch

The porch is currently covered in three feet of snow.

Three inches of snow had fallen.

handful

He grabbed a handful of snow and threw it at Kate.

VERB + SNOW
be covered in

The car was completely covered in snow.

blow (AmE), clear (esp. BrE), plough/plow (esp. AmE), shovel (esp. AmE), sweep

She cleared the snow from the path.

melt

The sun came out and melted all the snow.

expect

We're expecting snow over the next few days.

get, have

Southern Europe rarely gets snow.

struggle through, trudge through, walk through

I trudged through the snow and ice to the edge of town.

SNOW + VERB
cover sth, lie, pile, pile up, settle

Snow covered everything from horizon to horizon.

Snow had piled up against the walls of the house.

It was too warm for the snow to settle.

come down, drift, drive, fall, swirl

The heaviest snow is coming down in Maine.

melt, thaw
SNOW + NOUN
flurry, shower, storm (usually snowstorm)
conditions

The snow conditions were excellent.

fall (usually snowfall)

a heavy snowfall

a light snowfall

an area of low snowfall

cover

The glacier provides skiers with year-round snow cover.

line (usually snowline)

animals that live above the snowline

bank, drift (usually snowdrift)

He got his car stuck in a snowdrift.

field (usually snowfield)
slide (usually snowslide) (AmE) (avalanche in BrE)
day (AmE)

Growing up in New York, I had my share of snow days.

blower (usually snowblower), plough/plow (usually snowplough/snowplow), shovel
cannon (BrE), gun
blindness
chains, tyre/tire
shoe (usually snowshoe)
globe

She bought a plastic snow globe with the Eiffel Tower inside.

PREPOSITION
across the snow

We walked across the snow to the road.

in snow, into snow

The children are playing in the snow.

through snow

We struggled through the deep snow back to the chalet.

under snow

The steps were buried under the snow.

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verb
ADVERB
hard, heavily

It had been snowing heavily all night.

lightly
outside

It looked to be snowing outside.

overnight

We woke up to find that it had snowed overnight.

VERB + SNOW
begin to, start to
PHRASES
start snowing, stop snowing

It started snowing just as we were setting out.


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