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# snowman

«snowman» in Mova's school dictionary: **a figure of a person made of snow, usually two or three…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a snowman, snowmen)

### meaning for a pupil

A snowman is a figure of a person made of snow, usually two or three big snowballs stacked up, with a face of stones or coal and a carrot nose. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/snowman/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday winter life children build snowmen; in stories like «The Snowman» or Olaf in «Frozen» a snowman comes alive. In science, a snowman melts when the temperature rises above 0 °C. Phrases: «build a snowman», «make a snowman», «the snowman melted».

### examples

- We built a snowman in the garden. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/snowman/#x1)
- Our snowman has a carrot for a nose. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/snowman/#x2)
- The snowman melted when the sun came out. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/snowman/#x3)
- Roll a big snowball for the snowman's body. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/snowman/#x4)
- Olaf is a funny snowman in «Frozen». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/snowman/#x5)
- Put a hat and scarf on the snowman. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/snowman/#x6)

### note

Irregular plural: snowman → snowmen. One word. Water freezes and snow stays at 0 °C or below; above that, the snowman slowly melts.

### In the corpora

- [Il neige means "It's snowing"; la neige is snow and un bonhomme de neige is a snowman.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/13-weather-and-seasons/9/)
- [Insulation slows heat flow in both directions, so a coat wrapped round a snowman makes it last longer.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/25-keeping-warm-and-keeping-cool/6/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «snowman» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/snowman/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.