snows
UK/snəʊz//snoʊz/
snows noun: one or both regions of the Earth where it snows the year round; the Arctic and/or Antarctic. Also the clipping of snow tires.
Noun
snows pl (plural only)
- One or both regions of the Earth where it snows the year round; the Arctic and/or Antarctic.
- To men legislating for the vast area betwixt the two oceans, betwixt the snows and the tropics, somewhat of the gravity and grandeur of nature will infuse itself into the code.1844 February 7 (date delivered), Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Young American: A Lecture Read before the Mercantile Library Association, in Boston, at the Odeon, Wednesday, February 7, 1844, London: John...
- A woman's pale-coloured breasts.
Proper noun capitalized: Snows
Snows
- plural of Snow
Also used as
snows is also the clipping of snow tires.
snows is also the plural of snow.
snows is also the third-person singular simple present indicative of snow.
Origin of snows
From snow + -s (suffix forming pluralia tantum and regular plurals of nouns; and the third-person singular indicative present tense of verbs).
Phrases with snows
- snows in
- snows up
- snows out
- snows down
- snows over
- green snows
- onion snows
- robin snows
- snows under
- hominy snows
- yellow snows
- where are the snows of yesteryear
2 more phrasesFewer phrases
Words that rhyme with snows
48 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- interpose
- propose
- gloze
- oppose
- disclose
- foreclose
- prose
- turn up one's nose
- unclose
- adipose
- appose
- arose
- chose
- counterpose
- croze
- decompose
- doze
- enclose
- froze
- hoes
- knows
- adoze
- apollos
- beaus
- beprose
- blows
- bose
- bros
- châteaux
- cloze
- coze
- crows
- does
- dos
- doughs
- fallows
- fellows
- flows
- foes
- follows
- foredispose
- frows
- glows
- goes
- grows
- hard-nose
- hollows
- joes
Questions about snows
- What does snows mean?
- Snows means one or both regions of the Earth where it snows the year round; the Arctic and/or Antarctic.
- What part of speech is snows?
- Snows can be a noun or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce snows?
- Snows is pronounced /snəʊz/ (UK).
Words near snows in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: snows (page history and authors); Snows (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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