snow-white

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snow-white

(snō′wīt′, -hwīt′)

adj.

Pure white; white as snow.

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snow-white

adj

1. white as snow

2. pure as white snow

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snow′-white′

adj.

white as snow.

[before 1000]

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Adj.

snow-white - of the white color of snow

snowy

achromatic, neutral - having no hue; "neutral colors like black or white"

Translations

snow-white

[ˈsnəʊˈwaɪt] ADJ → blanco como la nieve

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snow-white

[ˌsnəʊˈwaɪt] adj → candido/a

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snow

(snəu) noun

frozen water vapour that falls to the ground in soft white flakes. We woke up to find snow on the ground; We were caught in a heavy snow-shower; About 15 centimetres of snow had fallen overnight.

verb

to shower down in, or like, flakes of snow. It's snowing heavily.

ˈsnowy adjective

1. full of, or producing a lot of, snow. The weather has been very snowy recently.

2. white like snow. the old man's snowy (white) hair.

ˈsnowball noun

a ball of snow pressed hard together, especially made by children for throwing, as a game.

ˈsnowboard noun

a board on which a person can stand and glide over snow for sport.

ˈsnow-capped adjective

(of mountains etc) having tops which are covered with snow. snow-capped peaks.

ˈsnowdrift noun

a bank of snow blown together by the wind. There were deep snowdrifts at the side of the road.

ˈsnowfall noun

1. a fall or shower of snow that settles on the ground. There was a heavy snowfall last night.

2. the amount of snow that falls in a certain place. The snowfall last year was much higher than average.

ˈsnowflake noun

one of the soft, light flakes composed of groups of crystals, in which snow falls. A few large snowflakes began to fall from the sky.

ˈsnowstorm noun

a heavy fall of snow especially accompanied by a strong wind.

ˌsnow-ˈwhite adjective

white like snow.

snowed under

overwhelmed eg with a great deal of work. Last week I was absolutely snowed under with work.

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Rebecca and Emma Jane offered to go two or three miles in some one direction and see what they could do in the way of stirring up a popular demand for the Snow-White and Rose-Red brands, the former being devoted to laundry purposes and the latter being intended for the toilet.

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They clothed her with heavenly garments: on her head they put a fine, well-wrought crown of gold, and in her pierced ears they hung ornaments of orichalc and precious gold, and adorned her with golden necklaces over her soft neck and snow-white breasts, jewels which the gold- filleted Hours wear themselves whenever they go to their father's house to join the lovely dances of the gods.

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But the pretty child, if she slept at all, could not have slept more than a moment, when she heard something trample on the grass, not far from her, and, peeping out from the heap of flowers, beheld a snow-white bull.

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Martin found himself shaking hands with a cranky-eyed, bald-headed man, whose face looked youthful enough from what little could be seen of it, for most of it was covered by a snow-white beard, carefully trimmed - by his wife, who did it on Sundays, at which times she also shaved the back of his neck.

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I had been vaguely conscious, for a while, of a person who was walking in the street abreast of us; I had glanced furtively at him once or twice, and noticed that he was a fine, large, vigorous young fellow, with an open, independent countenance, faintly shaded with a pale and even almost imperceptible crop of early down, and that he was clothed from head to heel in cool and enviable snow-white linen.

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In India skies were hot and blazing; this was of a deep cool blue which almost seemed to sparkle like the waters of some lovely bottomless lake, and here and there, high, high in the arched blueness floated small clouds of snow-white fleece.