Definition of Snowdrift

1. Noun. A mass of snow heaped up by the wind.

Generic synonyms: Drift

Definition of Snowdrift

1. n. A bank of drifted snow.

Definition of Snowdrift

1. Noun. A bank of snow accumulated by the wind. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Snowdrift

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Snowdrift

snowcapped
snowcaps
snowcapt
snowcat
snowcats
snowclone
snowclones
snowcock
snowcocks
snowcone
snowcones
snowcovered
snowcross
snowdog
snowdogs
snowdrift (current term)
snowdrifted
snowdrifts
snowdrop anemone
snowdrop tree
snowdrop windflower
snowdrop windflowers
snowdrops
snowed
snowed in
snowed under
snower
snowers
snoweth

Literary usage of Snowdrift

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Voyage of the 'Fox' in the Arctic Seas: A Narrative of the Discovery of by Francis Leopold M'Clintock (1859)
"... and the porch of my snow-hut has been fretted away to a mere cobweb by the attrition of the snowdrift: the Doctor and I rebuilt it ..."

2. Letters from Abroad to Kindred at Home by Catharine Maria Sedgwick (1841)
"We scarcely know what spring is; our change of season is like the Russian bath, the plunge from the snowdrift to hot water. Here the muses and the graces ..."

3. Letters from Abroad to Kindred at Home by Catharine Maria Sedgwick (1841)
"We scarcely know what spring is; our change of season is like the Russian bath, the plunge from the snowdrift to hot water. Here the muses and the graces ..."

4. Land of the Lingering Snow: Chronicles of a Stroller in New England from by Frank Bolles (1891)
"... THE MINUTE-MAN IN A snowdrift. IT is not often tbat snow-shoes are useful in this part of Massachusetts, but as about sixteen inches of a recent fall ..."

5. Land of the Lingering Snow: Chronicles of a Stroller in New England from by Frank Bolles (1891)
"... THE MINUTE-MAN IN A snowdrift. IT is not often that snow-shoes are useful in this part of Massachusetts, but as about sixteen inches of a recent fall ..."

6. Land of the Lingering Snow: Chronicles of a Stroller in New England from by Frank Bolles (1895)
"... THE MINUTE-MAN IN A snowdrift. IT is not often that snow-shoes are useful in this part of Massachusetts, but as about sixteen inches of a recent fall ..."

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