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snowy [adjective]

US

/ˈsnoʊ.i/

UK

/ˈsnəʊ.i/

Example:

Children always like snowy weather.

Oxford Essential Dictionary

snowy

adjective (snowier, snowiest)
with a lot of snow:
snowy weather

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

snowy

snow‧y /ˈsnəʊi $ ˈsnoʊi/ BrE AmE adjective
1. with a lot of snow:
the snowy fields
one snowy January day
2. literary pure white, like snow:
snowy hair

Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

snowy

snowy [snowy snowier snowiest] [ˈsnəʊi] [ˈsnoʊi] adjective (snow·ier, snowi·est)
1. usually before noun covered with snow

• snowy fields

2. (of a period of time) when a lot of snow falls
• a snowy weekend

• The weather in January is often cold and snowy.

3. (literary) very white, like new snow
• snowy hair
Example Bank:

• snowy fields/peaks

Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary

Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary - 4th Edition

snowy / ˈsnəʊ.i / / ˈsnoʊ- / adjective

full of or like snow:

We've had a very snowy winter this year.

I remember him as an old man with a snowy- white (= pure white) beard.

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Collins Advanced Learner’s English Dictionary

snowy

/snoʊi/
(snowier, snowiest)

A snowy place is covered in snow. A snowy day is a day when a lot of snow has fallen.
...the snowy peaks of the Bighorn Mountains.

ADJ: usu ADJ n

Merriam-Webster's Advanced Learner's Dictionary

snowy

snowy /ˈsnowi/ adj snow·i·er; -est [also more ~; most ~]
1 a : having a lot of snow
• a snowy day
• This is the snowiest winter in years.
b : covered in snow
• snowy mountaintops/streets/fields
2 : white like snow
• snowy hair
• snowy white flower petals

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