snowstorm

[snoh-stawrm]

noun

1. a storm accompanied by a heavy fall of snow.

snowstorm

/ ˈsnəʊˌstɔːm /

noun

1. a storm with heavy snow

Word History and Origins

Origin of snowstorm¹

An Americanism dating back to 1765–75; snow + storm

Example Sentences

Last week, I stood on a Chicago street corner in a blinding snowstorm and watched a homeless man crawl inside a big wooden box on wheels.

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Survivors of a snowstorm in Patagonia which killed five people including a British woman have said local authorities did not offer enough help.

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A British woman is among five people who have died in a snowstorm in Chilean Patagonia.

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During a snowstorm, we were driving through the mountains with the girls when Jimmie slid off the road and into the drainage ditch.

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McLean, a 32-year-old data analyst in Chicago, was monitoring his wife’s scheduled United flight to New York on a hunch it would be waylaid by the shutdown and a coming snowstorm.

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• cloudburst 
• cyclone 
• disturbance 
• gale 
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• monsoon 
• squall 
• tempest