Snowdon

English

Etymology

From Old English snaw+dun, Literally, “snow hill”

Pronunciation

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• Rhymes: -əʊdən

Proper noun

Snowdon (countable and uncountable, plural Snowdons)

1. A placename:
   1. The highest mountain in Wales at 1,085 metres high, in the county of Gwynedd (OS grid ref SH6054).
   2. A hill 495 metres high, on Dartmoor, South Hams district, Devon, England (OS grid ref SX6668).
   3. A neighbourhood of Montreal, Quebec, Canada, in the borough of Côte-des-Neiges–Notre-Dame-de-Grâce, named after James Snowdon.
2. An English habitational surname from toponymy [in turn from Old English] for someone who lived in any of these places.

Derived terms

• Snowden
• Snowdonia

 

Translations

Welsh mountain

• Breton: Gouezva f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 斯諾登／斯诺登 (Sīnuòdēng)

• Japanese: スノードン (Sunōdon)
• Korean: 스노든 (seunodeun)
• Lithuanian: Snoudonas m
• Macedonian: Сноудон m (Snoudon)
• Marathi: स्नोडन (snoḍan)
• Russian: Сно́удон m (Snóudon)
• Ukrainian: Сноудон m (Snoudon)
• Welsh: Yr Wyddfa f

See also

• Snowdown