snowmen
snowmen is the plural of snowman.
Meaning of snowman
Noun
snowman (plural snowmen)
- A humanoid figure made with large snowballs stacked on each other. Human traits like a face and arms may be fashioned with sticks (arms), a carrot (nose), and stones or coal (eyes, mouth).
- A score of eight, especially within one inning (in baseball) or on one hole (in golf, where it is also known as dogballs).
- [The Angels] dropped a snowman early on us [Saturday] and we built a snowman early too.1996 June 3, Buster Olney, “Chat with Sparky helps 'useless' Johnson Dejected O's manager gets lift from ex-Tigers boss”, in The Baltimore Sun (quoting B. J. Surhoff)
- A playing card with the rank of eight.
- An attractive but heartless man.
- A few years ago there lived a lover
By the name of Jimmy Jones
Who really snowed the girls and left them cold
And gained the title of "The Great Snowman".1961, John D. Loudermilk, “The Great Snowman”
- A few years ago there lived a lover
Phrases with snowmen
Questions about snowmen
- What is snowmen the plural of?
- Snowmen is the plural of snowman.
Words near snowmen in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: snowmen (page history and authors); snowman (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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