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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

SNOWY, a.
1. White like snow.
2. Abounding with snow; covered with snow. The snowy top of cold Olympus.
3. White; pure; unblemished.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: marked by the presence of snow; "a white Christmas"; "the white hills of a northern winter" [syn: white, snowy]
2: covered with snow; "snow-clad hills"; "snow-covered roads"; "a long snowy winter" [syn: snow-clad, snow-covered, snowy]
3: of the white color of snow [syn: snow-white, snowy]

Merriam Webster's

adjective (snowier; -est) Date: before 12th century 1. a. composed of snow or melted snow b. marked by or covered with snow 2. a. whitened by snow b. snow-white • snowily adverb • snowiness noun

Merriam Webster's

geographical name river 278 miles (447 kilometers) SE Australia flowing from Snowy Mountains to the Pacific in SE Victoria

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. (snowier, snowiest) 1 of or like snow. 2 (of the weather etc.) with much snow. Phrases and idioms: snowy owl a large white owl, Nyctea scandiaca, native to the Arctic. Derivatives: snowily adv. snowiness n.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Snowy Snow"y, a. 1. White like snow. ``So shows a snowy dove trooping with crows.'' --Shak. 2. Abounding with snow; covered with snow. ``The snowy top of cold Olympus.'' --Milton. 3. Fig.: Pure; unblemished; unstained; spotless. There did he lose his snowy innocence. --J. Hall (1646). Snowy heron (Zo["o]l.), a white heron, or egret (Ardea candidissima), found in the Southern United States, and southward to Chili; -- called also plume bird. Snowy lemming (Zo["o]l.), the collared lemming (Cuniculus torquatus), which turns white in winter. Snowy owl (Zo["o]l.), a large arctic owl (Nyctea Scandiaca, or N. nivea) common all over the northern parts of the United States and Europe in winter time. Its plumage is sometimes nearly pure white, but it is usually more or less marked with blackish spots. Called also white owl. Snowy plover (Zo["o]l.), a small plover ([AE]gialitis nivosa) of the western parts of the United States and Mexico. It is light gray above, with the under parts and portions of the head white.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(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

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

a. 1. Snow-like. 2. Abounding with snow. 3. White, pure, spotless, unblemished, immaculate, unsullied, unstained.

Moby Thesaurus

argent, argentine, blotless, canescent, chalky, chaste, clean, cleanly, cretaceous, fleecy-white, frosted, frosty, grizzled, grizzly, hoar, hoary, immaculate, innocent, lactescent, lily-white, marble, marmoreal, milky, nival, niveous, platinum, pure, pure in heart, pure white, purehearted, sexually innocent, silver, silvered, silvery, snow-bearded, snow-blanketed, snow-capped, snow-clad, snow-crested, snow-drifted, snow-driven, snow-encircled, snow-feathered, snow-hung, snow-laden, snow-lined, snow-loaded, snow-mantled, snow-sprinkled, snow-still, snow-tipped, snow-topped, snow-white, snowlike, spotless, stainless, swan-white, taintless, unblemished, unblotted, uncorrupt, undefiled, unsoiled, unspotted, unstained, unsullied, untainted, untarnished, virtuous, white, white as snow