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snow fort

snow fort noun: a walled structure constructed of snow and used for children's wintertime play.

snow fort: a walled structure constructed of snow and used for children's wintertime play
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Noun

snow fort (plural snow forts)

  1. (Canada, Northern-US) A walled structure constructed of snow and used for children's wintertime play.
    • Knowing the proper art of building a quin-zhee could have saved me and my friends from many snow fort cave-ins when young.1990 February 1, Sue Lebrecht, “You need patience building snow fort”, in Toronto Star, page A23
    • It wasn't a big lawn . . . but to us it was stadium-sized, with plenty of room for snow angels, snowball fights and the all-important snow forts.2008, Laura Dolce, "Seeing snow through a child's life," seacoastonline.com (New Hampshire), 3 Jan.
    Synonyms:
    snow castle

Synonyms of snow fort

Forms of snow fort

pluralsnow forts
alternative formsnowfort

Questions about snow fort

What does snow fort mean?
Snow fort means a walled structure constructed of snow and used for children's wintertime play.
What part of speech is snow fort?
Snow fort is a noun.
What is the plural of snow fort?
The plural of snow fort is snow forts.

Words near snow fort in the dictionary

  1. snow flat
  2. snow flea
  3. snow fleas
  4. snow flies
  5. snow fly
  6. snow fort
  7. snow forts
  8. snow fox
  9. snow foxes
  10. snow fungi
  11. snow fungus

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