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snowslide

snowslide noun: an avalanche of snow.

Noun

snowslide (plural snowslides)

  1. An avalanche of snow
    • The particular type of avalanche against which this shelter has been designed to guard is of landslides rather than snowslides, and the G.W.R. has good reason to remember the happenings which prompted its construction.1943 March and April, “A British Avalanche Shelter”, in Railway Magazine, page 80
    • For instance, on 27 January 1993, on the Trans-Caucasian Highway, 17 people were buried under a snowslide.2006, Kirill Ya Kondratyev, Vladimir F. Krapivin, Costas A. Varostos, Natural Disasters as Interactive Components of Global Ecodynamics - Page 26

Forms of snowslide

pluralsnowslides

Origin of snowslide

From snow + slide. Compare landslide.

Questions about snowslide

What does snowslide mean?
Snowslide means an avalanche of snow.
What part of speech is snowslide?
Snowslide is a noun.
What is the plural of snowslide?
The plural of snowslide is snowslides.

Words near snowslide in the dictionary

  1. snowshower
  2. snowshowers
  3. Snowsill
  4. snowskin mooncake
  5. snowskin mooncakes
  6. snowslide
  7. snowslides
  8. snowslip
  9. snowslips
  10. snowsnake
  11. snowsnakes

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