snow-white

[snoh-hwahyt, -wahyt]

adjective

1. white as snow.

snow-white

adjective

1. white as snow

2. pure as white snow

Word History and Origins

Origin of snow-white¹

before 1000; Middle English; Old English snāwhwīt

Example Sentences

In the photo, the snow-white marble statue takes center stage, overlooking Brown Jackson on the lower left.

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Exiting Raffles onto the busy road, I noticed across the street the spire of a snow-white Gothic chapel with stained glass windows.

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There is a magnificent, snow-white wolf on the cover of Time Magazine today - accompanied by a headline announcing the return of the dire wolf.

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Celmins’ 1968 drawings of old black-and-white photographs torn from history books — a 1930s zeppelin airship, Hiroshima’s nearly obliterated 1945 landscape — begin with a sheet of paper prepared with a ground of snow-white acrylic.

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Sinwar - who has striking snow-white hair and jet-black eyebrows - disappeared at the start of the war sparked by the attack, in which about 1,200 people were killed and 251 others were taken hostage.

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