blizzard
Syllables: bliz·zardUK/ˈblɪz.əːd//ˈblɪz.ɚd/
blizzard noun: a large snowstorm accompanied by strong winds and greatly reduced visibility caused by blowing snow.
Noun
blizzard (plural blizzards)
- A large snowstorm accompanied by strong winds and greatly reduced visibility caused by blowing snow.
- A large amount of paperwork.
- A large number of similar things; especially, such a group arriving as an inundation, thick and fast.
- Near-synonyms: flood, inundation, torrent
- a blizzard of political ads
- Synonyms:
- flood, inundation, torrent
Verb
blizzard (third-person singular simple present blizzards, present participle blizzarding, simple past and past participle blizzarded)
- To fall in windy conditions.
Proper noun capitalized: Blizzard
Blizzard (plural Blizzards)
- A surname.
blizzard meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali
blizzard in Hindi
- severe snowstorm
- हिम आँधी him āndhī, हिमाँधी himāndhī
blizzard in Tamil
- பனிப் புயல், பனிப்புயல்
blizzard in Urdu
- برفانی طوفان
blizzard in Bengali
- প্রবল তুষারঝড়, তীব্র বাতাসের সাথে তুষারপাত
More languagesFewer languages
- blizzard in Malayalam
- ഹിമവാതം, ഹിമപാതം, ഹിമക്കാറ്റ്, മഞ്ഞുകാറ്റ്
- blizzard in Kannada
- ಹಿಮಪಾತ himapāta
- blizzard in Arabic
- عَاصِفَة ثَلْجِيَّة ʕāṣifa ṯaljiyya, دَمَق damaq
- blizzard in Persian
- کولاک kulâk, بوران burân
- blizzard in Thai
- พายุหิมะ paa-yú-hì-má
Examples of blizzard in a sentence
- The snow from the blizzard was stabbing at my face as I skied down the mountain.
- After the blizzard, we shoveled the driveway for the next two days.
- Sending the soldiers out into that blizzard was as good as murdering them!
Synonyms of blizzard
Forms of blizzard
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | blizzards |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | blizzards |
| present participle | blizzarding |
| past participle | blizzarded |
| past | blizzarded |
| Proper noun | |
| plural | Blizzards |
| alternative form | Bleazard |
| alternative form | Blizard |
Origin of blizzard
Unknown, with various theories as below. Compare English blizz (“violent rainstorm”), dialectal English bliz (“violent blow”); one etymology, from Midlands English dialect, seems to be ultimately from Old English blysa (“blaze”). Etymology theories * The earliest written use of blizzard as a term to describe a severe snowstorm, spelled blizard, was in the Estherville, Iowa's Northern Vindicator on 23 April 1870. O.C. Bates, neologistic editor of the Northern Vindicator, used it for the terrific snowstorms in the state that spring. He claimed he had picked up the term from locals characterizing a "Lightning Ellis", on account of his violent outbursts. One week later it appeared again in the same newspaper, only with the now-common double-z spelling. * Blizzard possibly comes from the surname "Blizzard" dating back to 1700s(?). Blizzard surname possibly comes from the blizzard one, dating back to the 1500s(?). * The word blizzard was used (not in relation to the weather) in America prior to 1870. It had various, roughly associated, now obsolete meanings: : Blast with a firearm or cannon (whether one or multiple bullets or pellets uncertain) : Verbal blast : Blast with a firearm or...
Altered form of Blissett, under the influence of the word blizzard.
Words formed from blizzard
Words that rhyme with blizzard
Questions about blizzard
- What does blizzard mean?
- Blizzard means a large snowstorm accompanied by strong winds and greatly reduced visibility caused by blowing snow.
- What is blizzard in Hindi?
- Blizzard in Hindi is हिम आँधी (him āndhī), हिमाँधी (himāndhī). See Blizzard meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is blizzard?
- Blizzard can be a noun, a verb or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce blizzard?
- Blizzard is pronounced /ˈblɪz.əːd/ (UK).
- What is the plural of blizzard?
- The plural of blizzard is blizzards.
Words near blizzard in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: blizzard (page history and authors); Blizzard (page history and authors); blizzard (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); blizzard (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); blizzard (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); blizzard (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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