snowdrift

See also: snow drift

English

A snowdrift.

Etymology

From snow +‎ drift.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsnəʊdɹɪft/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

snowdrift (plural snowdrifts)

1. A bank of snow accumulated by the wind.

   Synonym: snowbank

   • 1962 April, D. Bertram, “Trans-Pennine Diversion”, in Modern Railways, page 255:

     In winter the line between Barnard Castle and Kirkby Stephen was regularly blocked by snowdrifts; in 1947, for instance, it was closed for eight weeks and only three weeks before it was finally closed no trains were able to use it for three days because of thick snow.

Alternative forms

• snow drift

Hyponyms

• snow cornice

Derived terms

• snowdrift glacier
• snowdrift ice

Translations

bank of snow

• Azerbaijani: kürtük
• Bashkir: көрт
• Bulgarian: преспа (bg) f (prespa)
• Catalan: congesta (ca) f, pila de neu f, cúmul de neu m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 雪堆 (zh) (xuěduī)

• Czech: sněhová závěj f
• Danish: snefane, snedrive
• Dutch: sneeuwbank (nl) f, sneeuwduin f, sneeuwdrift f
• Erzya: шушмо (šušmo)
• Esperanto: neĝamaso
• Estonian: lumehang
• Faroese: kavafonn f
• Finnish: nietos (fi), kinos (fi), lumikinos (fi); lumivalli (fi) (formed by plowing etc. rather than the wind)
• French: congère (fr) f
• Georgian: ნამქერი (namkeri)
• German: Schneewehe (de) f, Schneeverwehung f
• Greek: χιονοστιβάδα (el) f (chionostiváda)
• Greenlandic: apusineq, aputip qingartagaa
• Hawaiian: ʻapukāka
• Hungarian: hófúvás (hu), hókupac (hu), hótorlasz (hu), hóbucka (hu)
• Icelandic: snjóskafli m
• Ido: niv-amaso (io)
• Ingrian: hanki, kulvehto, lumihanki, lumikulvehto
• Irish: ráth sneachta m
• Italian: cumulo di neve m
• Kazakh: күртік (kürtık), омбы (omby)
• Livvi Karelian kivos, hangi
• Latin: cumulus nivis m
• Macedonian: пре́спа f (préspa), со́спа f (sóspa)
• Mingrelian: ლანქერი (lankeri), ლენქერი (lenkeri)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: snøfonn m or f, snødrive m or f

  Nynorsk: snøfonn f, snødrive f

• Polish: zaspa (pl) f, zaspa śnieżna f
• Portuguese: acúmulo de neve m
• Romanian: troian (ro) n, nămete (ro) m
• Russian: сугро́б (ru) m (sugrób)
• Spanish: cúmulo de nieve m
• Svan: ნენქერ (nenker)
• Swedish: snödriva (sv) c, snövall (sv) c
• Tofa: һөртүк
• Ukrainian: заме́т m (zamét)
• Walloon: consire (wa) f, sconsire (wa) f, banc d' nive (wa) m
• Welsh: lluwchfa f

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