word-vault/dist/data/cards/sn/snow.json

A lightweight JavaScript package for English word definitions and collections.

{
    "term": "snow",
    "partOfSpeech": "noun",
    "ox3000": true,
    "cefr": "a1",
    "image": "data/images/mo/mountains.png",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "small soft white pieces (called flakes) of frozen water that fall from the sky in cold weather; this substance when it is lying on the ground",
            "sensetop": "in the snowthrough the snow",
            "labels": "(North American English)(British English)(British English)",
            "cefr": "a1",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "**Snow was falling** heavily."
                },
                {
                    "text": "We **had snow** in May this year."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The snow was beginning to melt."
                },
                {
                    "text": "**Heavy snow** is expected tomorrow."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Children were playing in the snow.",
                    "contextForm": "in the snow"
                },
                {
                    "text": "She saw them trudging through the snow towards the house.",
                    "contextForm": "through the snow"
                },
                {
                    "text": "We got over 100 **inches of snow** last winter."
                },
                {
                    "text": "There was almost a **foot of snow** on the ground."
                },
                {
                    "text": "20 cm of snow were expected today."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The snow didn't settle *(= stay on the ground)*."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The **snow and ice** caused a number of traffic accidents."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Last week's cold temperatures were accompanied by **rain and snow**."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Her skin was **as white as snow**."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He grabbed a handful of snow and threw it at Kate."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I trudged through the snow and ice to the edge of town."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Southern Europe rarely gets snow."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The crisp snow crunched as we walked through it."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The glacier provides skiers with year-round snow cover."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The heaviest snow is coming down in Maine."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The porch is currently covered in three feet of snow."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The snow conditions were excellent."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The steps were buried under the snow."
                },
                {
                    "text": "There was a light dusting of snow on the ground."
                },
                {
                    "text": "There were great big piles of snow on the road outside."
                },
                {
                    "text": "They had to use artificial snow at the Winter Olympics."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Weather"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["heavy", "thick", "fine"],
                "… of snow": ["flake", "fall", "flurry"],
                "verb + snow": ["be covered in", "blow", "clear"],
                "snow + verb": ["cover something", "lie", "pile"],
                "snow + noun": ["flurry", "shower", "storm"],
                "preposition": ["across the snow", "in snow", "into snow"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "an amount of snow that falls in one particular place or at one particular time",
            "labels": "(literary)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "the first snows of winter"
                },
                {
                    "text": "the snows of Mount Kilimanjaro"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "extremely clean, pure, etc.",
            "examples": []
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/snəʊ/",
                "audio": "sn/snow/snow__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/snəʊ/",
                "audio": "sn/snow/snow__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "Old English snāw, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch sneeuw and German Schnee, from an Indo-European root shared by Latin nix, niv- and Greek nipha."
}