SNOWSTORM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does snowstorm mean? 

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

1. a storm with widespread snowfall accompanied by strong winds

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• SNOWSTORM (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A storm with widespread snowfall accompanied by strong winds

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural phenomena

Synonyms:

blizzard; snowstorm

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

storm; violent storm (a violent weather condition with winds 64-72 knots (11 on the Beaufort scale) and precipitation and thunder and lightning)

 Context examples 

The sight of it was to me like a fire in a snowstorm.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

There’s Will Wood, that I beat in forty rounds in the thick of a snowstorm down Navestock way, ’e drives a ’ackney.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)