névé

[ ney-vey ]

/ neɪˈveɪ /

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noun

granular snow accumulated on high mountains and subsequently compacted into glacial ice.

a field of such snow.

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Also called firn, old snow .

Origin of névé

1850–55; <Franco-Provençal <Vulgar Latin *nivātum, noun use of neuter of Latin nivātus snow-cooled, equivalent to niv- (stem of nixsnow) + -ātus-ate¹

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How to use névé in a sentence

During the last presidential debate, Neves went so far to refer to Rousseff as “flighty.”
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Jose Neves entered the world of fashion when he was 20, launching a cyberpunk shoe label.
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Captain Antonio Rodrigues Neves then kindly invited me to take up my abode in his house.
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Captain Neves invited all the principal inhabitants of the place, and did what he could to feast them in a princely style.
Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa|David Livingstone

Captain Neves was now actively engaged in preparing a present, worth about fifty pounds, to be sent by Pombeiros to Matiamvo.
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Captain Neves had one weighing 120 lbs., and this weight is by no means uncommon.
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A fine boy of Captain Neves' had, since my passage westward, shared a similar fate.
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British Dictionary definitions for névé

névé

/ (ˈnɛveɪ) /

noun

Also called: firn a mass of porous ice, formed from snow, that has not yet become frozen into glacier ice

a snowfield at the head of a glacier that becomes transformed into ice

Word Origin for névé

C19: from Swiss French névé glacier, from Late Latin nivātus snow-cooled, from nix snow

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Scientific definitions for névé

névé

[ nā-vā′ ]

The upper part of a glacier, consisting of hardened snow.

The granular snow typically found in such a field.