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snowchild

snowchild noun: a visual representation of a child made from snow.

snowchild: a visual representation of a child made from snow
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Noun

snowchild (plural snowchildren)

  1. A visual representation of a child made from snow.
    • And she wrote her letters: one to Joyce, that told of her safety without disclosing her place of refuge; another a longer, fuller one, to Mr. Chester, telling him of all that had happened, of her doubts and difficulties, and begging him to come to her; “for, you know, dear old Gabriel,” she said...1868 November, “Hugh Carmichael’s Secret”, in The Odd Fellow’s Companion, Devoted to the Interests of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and General Literature, volumes IV—1868–1869, Columbus...
    • Another example of the stylised mould into which earlier stories are fashioned to become nouvelles is that of the snowchild (Montaiglon et Raynaud, Fabliaux, Vol. I, No. XIV; Cent Nouvelles Nouvelles, XIX) to which reference has already been made.1954, Janet M. Ferrier, Forerunners of the French Novel: An Essay on the Development of the Nouvelle in the Late Middle Ages, Manchester University Press, page 51
    Synonyms:
    snowkid

Examples of snowchild in a sentence

  • The play, entitled “Snowflake”, was based on a Russian legend about a childless couple who were given a snowchild by the children of the village.1975, The Wisconsin Times, page 13, column 2:
  • Todd still gripped the misshapen reddish chimneytop in the fist that had collapsed the roof, flattening the gingerbread house and with it the little cookie snowman and snowwoman and snowchild.1978, DeKalb Literary Arts Journal: The Magazine of Literature and the Arts of DeKalb Community College, volume 12, page 11:
  • Fir trees, pregnant with snowchild, sway heavily in the gilding sun.1979, David Green, A Pacific Crest Odyssey: Walking the Trail from Mexico to Canada, Wilderness Press, →ISBN, page 112:
  • Lyn and I made a snowchild in the shade of a grove of gums.1992, Beverley Farmer, The Seal Woman, University of Queensland Press, published 1993, pages 129–130:

Synonyms of snowchild

Forms of snowchild

pluralsnowchildren

Origin of snowchild

From snow + child.

Questions about snowchild

What does snowchild mean?
Snowchild means a visual representation of a child made from snow.
How do you use snowchild in a sentence?
The play, entitled “Snowflake”, was based on a Russian legend about a childless couple who were given a snowchild by the children of the village.
What part of speech is snowchild?
Snowchild is a noun.
What is the plural of snowchild?
The plural of snowchild is snowchildren.

Words near snowchild in the dictionary

  1. snowcapt
  2. snowcastle
  3. snowcastles
  4. snowcat
  5. snowcats
  6. snowchild
  7. snowchildren
  8. snowclad
  9. snowclone
  10. snowcloned
  11. snowcloneification

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