snowbelt
snowbelt noun: an area that is characterized by heavy annual snowfall.
Noun
snowbelt (plural snowbelts)
- An area that is characterized by heavy annual snowfall.
- Especially, the area around the Great Lakes in the north-eastern United States.
- Monthly totals of less than 6 inches fell in western, central, and east-central sections, with the exception of the Great Lakes snowbelt, where totals ranged from as much as 9 inches along Lake Erie up to 16 inches along the eastern shore of Lake Ontario, amounts well below normal for the snowbelt...1966, Climatological Data, page 229
- Government employment has produced long-term job growth in both snowbelt and sunbelt central cities.1984, Daniel Roland Fusfeld, Timothy Bates, Timothy Mason Bates, The Political Economy of the Urban Ghetto, page 99
Forms of snowbelt
| plural | snowbelts |
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Origin of snowbelt
From snow + belt.
Questions about snowbelt
- What does snowbelt mean?
- Snowbelt means an area that is characterized by heavy annual snowfall.
- What part of speech is snowbelt?
- Snowbelt is a noun.
- What is the plural of snowbelt?
- The plural of snowbelt is snowbelts.
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