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

Other possibilities: Cinderella Mac & Cheese, or Jet-Puffed marshmallows marketed with images of Olaf, Frozen’s snowman.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 21, 2026

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

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

Which must be why I'm dreaming about a little snowman who looks like Freak.

From "Freak The Mighty" by Rodman Philbrick

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

Through Elmer, we considered the white of snowmen and the purple of scarves; the pink of strawberry ice lollies and the red of sunsets.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 1, 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

The king’s host became a column of snowmen, staggering through knee-high drifts.

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