snow globe

American  

[snoh glohb] / ˈsnoʊ ˌgloʊb /

noun

snow globes plural

1. a clear glass or plastic ball containing a model scene, a clear liquid, and white flakes that settle like snow when the globe is shaken.

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• snow globes
  plural

Example Sentences

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snow globe

“Each takes money and time. It’s better to be skating to where the puck is going. Nobody is talking about the snow globe of the future.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 18, 2026

Martini Town, however, might as well have been a snow globe celebrating Picturesque Christmasville, U.S.A.

From Salon ● Dec. 23, 2023

The falling snow seen through window panes lends to the effect that this pair have found themselves isolated in a surreal but beautiful snow globe.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 3, 2023

Instead, she likened the concert to peering into the tiny cabin inside a snow globe, and seeing what life had been like for Mitchell over the last decade.

From BBC ● Jun. 12, 2023

I am a delicate doll poised inside a snow globe.

From "The Belles" by Dhonielle Clayton