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# snowy

«snowy» in Mova's school dictionary: **having a lot of snow or with snow falling** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

adjective (snowy, snowier, snowiest)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Snowy means having a lot of snow or with snow falling. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/snowy/#m1)

2) Snowy also means white like snow, as in snowy hair or a snowy owl. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/snowy/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In geography and weather lessons, snowy describes weather and places with snow, like snowy mountains or a snowy winter. In safety lessons, snowy roads and paths are slippery. In stories, snowy scenes set a cold, quiet or magical mood. Phrases: «a snowy day», «snowy weather», «snowy owl», «snow-white».

### examples

- It was a snowy day, so we built a snowman. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/snowy/#x1)
- The snowy mountains looked beautiful. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/snowy/#x2)
- Drive slowly on snowy roads. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/snowy/#x3)
- Grandpa has snowy white hair. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/snowy/#x4)
- A snowy owl has white feathers. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/snowy/#x5)
- Canada has very snowy winters. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/snowy/#x6)
- This is the snowiest winter I can remember. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/snowy/#x7)
- The cat left footprints on the snowy path. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/snowy/#x8)
- It was terribly cold and snowy, but aunt must go to the theatre. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/snowy/#x9)

### note

Comparative: snowier, snowiest. Do not confuse «snowy» (with snow) with «snowed» (as in «it snowed»). Also «snowy» weather is different from «icy» weather, though both can be slippery.

### In the corpora

- [They hurry home across the snowy fields towards the river.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/40-willows-ch4-part4-the-city-under-the-wood/11/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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