Meaning of snow In English

• 0 the small, soft, white pieces of ice that sometimes fall from the sky when it is cold, or the white layer on the ground and other surfaces that it forms:

  • Outside the snow began to fall.

  • Let's go and play in the snow!

  • A blanket of snow lay on the ground.

  • Her hair was jet-black, her lips ruby-red and her skin as white as snow.

  • We haven't had many heavy snows this winter.

• 1 →  cocaine

• 2 If it snows, snow falls from the sky:

  • It's snowing.

  • It's starting to snow.

  • It had snowed overnight and a thick white layer covered the ground.

• 3 to deceive or trick someone by talking a lot or by giving them a lot of information:

  • It felt like she was snowing us with statistics.

• 4 water that falls from clouds as soft, white flakes (= thin pieces) of ice when it is cold, or an amount of these flakes:

  • [ U ] Six inches of snow fell overnight.

  • [ C ] We have had several snows in the past week.

• 5 to deceive someone with charming, persuasive talk:

  • This guy is very smooth and can snow anybody.

• 6 If it snows, snow falls from the sky:

  • It snowed all weekend.

• 7 to have more work than you can deal with:

  • be snowed under with/by sth We have been snowed under with phone calls all day.

  • One of her major concerns is to ensure that her boss never gets snowed under.