SNOWDRIFT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does snowdrift mean? 

• SNOWDRIFT (noun)
  The noun SNOWDRIFT has 1 sense:

1. a mass of snow heaped up by the wind

  Familiarity information: SNOWDRIFT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SNOWDRIFT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A mass of snow heaped up by the wind

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Hypernyms ("snowdrift" is a kind of...):

drift (a large mass of material that is heaped up by the wind or by water currents)

 Context examples 

The frozen particles of ice, brushed from the blades of grass by the wind, and borne across my face; the hard clatter of the horse's hoofs, beating a tune upon the ground; the stiff-tilled soil; the snowdrift, lightly eddying in the chalk-pit as the breeze ruffled it; the smoking team with the waggon of old hay, stopping to breathe on the hill-top, and shaking their bells musically; the whitened slopes and sweeps of Down-land lying against the dark sky, as if they were drawn on a huge slate!

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)