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snow-white

snow-white adjective: as white as snow; exceptionally white.

Adjective

snow-white (not comparable)

  1. As white as snow; exceptionally white.
    • One day he wandered to the banks of the Rhine. On its discolored waters swam a snow-white swan, playfully pulling at the rope which bound a small skiff to the shore.1880, Sabine Baring-Gould, Curious Myths of the Middle Ages, page 449
    • It was also a delight to see a racially mixed band from Boston. Too bad that the crowd was snow white. We've all still got a helluva long way to go.1982 August 14, Mary Ann Peacott, Liz Nania, “BT's In Boston”, in Gay Community News, volume 10, number 5, page 12
    Synonyms:
    lily-white, niveous

Noun

snow-white (plural snow-whites)

  1. (ethnic, offensive, slang, slur) A Caucasian person, especially a woman.

snow-white meaning in Tamil

snow-white in Tamil

பனிபோல் வெள்ளிய

Synonyms of snow-white

Antonyms

Forms of snow-white

pluralsnow-whites

Origin of snow-white

From Middle English snow whit, snowe-white, snouwite, snawhwit, from Old English snāwhwīt, from Proto-West Germanic *snaiwhwīt, from Proto-Germanic *snaiwahwītaz; equivalent to snow + white. Cognate with Dutch sneeuwwit (“snow-white”), German schneeweiß (“snow-white”), Swedish snövit (“snow-white”).

Words formed from snow-white

Questions about snow-white

What does snow-white mean?
Snow-white means as white as snow; exceptionally white.
What is snow-white in Tamil?
Snow-white in Tamil is பனிபோல் வெள்ளிய. See Snow-white meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is snow-white?
Snow-white can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near snow-white in the dictionary

  1. snow-skiing
  2. snow-thrower
  3. snow-throwers
  4. snow-water
  5. snow-waters
  6. snow-white
  7. snow-whites
  8. snowageddon
  9. snowageddons
  10. snowball
  11. snowball bush

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Adapted from Wiktionary: snow-white (page history and authors); snow-white (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). 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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