snowman

American  

[snoh-man] / ˈsnoʊˌmæn /

noun

• snowmen
  plural

1. a figure of a person made of packed snow.

2. Slang.

   1. the numeral eight.

      They retired Ripken’s number in 2001, so no Oriole will again wear that snowman on his back.

   2. Golf. a score of eight strokes on any individual hole.

      I blew it on the ninth hole—still can’t believe I made the dreaded snowman.

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snowman British  

/ ˈsnəʊˌmæn /

noun

1. a figure resembling a man, made of packed snow

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• snowmen
  plural

Etymology

Origin of snowman

First recorded in 1820–30; snow + man

Example Sentences

See Examples For:

snowman snowmen

Instead of colliding violently, the two bodies gently come into contact and fuse, preserving their rounded shapes and creating the familiar snowman form.

From Science Daily ● Feb. 23, 2026

"We made a snowman - I remember not having a carrot to put on the nose, so we ended up with an apple," she said.

From BBC ● Dec. 14, 2025

But closer inspection reveals a disturbing array of figures including people with warped faces, a snowman with strange facial features, and dogs with the heads of birds all bizarrely splashing through water.

From Barron's ● Nov. 19, 2025

Christmas, they say, comes once a year, but “once” now lasts for days and weeks and months, as Friday’s inflatable Frankenstein’s monster becomes Monday’s inflatable snowman.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 18, 2025

That’s unusual for the morning after a blizzard, when everybody stays home, drinking hot chocolate, and if you go out, it’s for sledding, or maybe building a snowman.

From "Linked" by Gordon Korman

For decades, astronomers have tried to understand why so many icy bodies in the outer solar system resemble snowmen, with two rounded sections joined together.

From Science Daily ● Feb. 23, 2026

Many people took the opportunity to build snowmen and enjoy a day of sledging, transforming hills across the country into tobogganing slopes.

From BBC ● Jan. 9, 2026

Svitlana Yakovleva tightly held her two grandchildren, Myroslava, 6, and Yevgen, 8, as they watched snowmen perform a choreographed rendition of a holiday mash-up.

From Barron's ● Dec. 23, 2025

Tired of Santas and relentlessly cheerful snowmen filling every screen?

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 15, 2025

More snowmen had risen in the yard by the time Theon Greyjoy made his way back.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin