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Definition of Snowfield
1. Noun. A permanent wide expanse of snow.
Definition of Snowfield
1. Noun. A large permanent expanse of snow on a mountain or at the head of a glacier. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Snowfield
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Snowfield
Literary usage of Snowfield
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Travels in the Central Caucasus and Bashan: Including Visits to Ararat and by Douglas William Freshfield (1869)
"... —Camp on the Rocks—Great Cold—On the snowfield—In a Crevasse— Frigid Despair—A
Crisis—Perseverance Rewarded—The Summit—Panorama—The Return—Enthusiastic ..."
2. Assessing Public Concern for Landscape Quality: A Potential Model to by Arthur W Magill (1993)
"... Figure 7—The square form of the ski area at Timberline, from a simulated 2.7
miles (4.3 km), tends to blend into the snowfield. ..."
3. A Shooting Trip to Kamchatka by Elim Pavlovich Demidov (1904)
"... the Kamchatka River—Two bears seen—A small mountain lake—Two sheep sighted—Plagued
by mosquitoes— Lunch on a snowfield—A three-year-old sheep shot—Eight ..."
4. Report of the Department of Engineering of the State of California by California Dept. of Engineering (1917)
"The John Muir Trail—At the head of Shepard Canyon. The John Muir Trail—Crossing
a snowfield at head of Shepard Canyon. ..."
5. Climatic Changes: Their Nature and Causes by Ellsworth Huntington, Stephen Sargent Visher (1922)
"Hence when a snowfield is present in the north, the lows, instead of migrating
much farther north in summer than in winter, as they now do, would merely ..."
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