white as snow

English

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Adjective

white as snow (not comparable)

1. (simile) Very white.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto VIII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 30:

     At last with creeping crooked pace forth came / An old old man, with beard as white as snow, / That on a staffe his feeble steps did frame,

   • 1830, Sarah Josepha Hale, Mary Had a Little Lamb:

     Mary had a little lamb whose fleece was white as snow.

Synonyms

• white as a sheet
• white as driven snow

 

Antonyms

• black as coal

 

Derived terms

• snow white
• snow-white
• Snow White

 

Translations

very white

• Bashkir: ҡарҙай аҡ (qarźay aq)
• Belarusian: беласне́жны (bjelasnjéžny)
• Bulgarian: сне́жнобя́л (bg) (snéžnobjál)
• Crimean Tatar: qar kibi beyaz
• Czech: sněhobílý
• Finnish: lumivalkoinen (fi)
• Galician: branco como a neve
• German: schneeweiß (de)
• Hebrew: צח כשלג (tzách kashéleg)
• Ido: nivea (io)
• Irish: chomh geal le sneachta, ar ghile an tsneachta, sneachtúil, sneachtach
• Kazakh: қардай ақ (qardai aq)
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: сүү шиг цагаан (süü šig cagaan), цас шиг цагаан (cas šig cagaan)

• Polish: śnieżnobiały (pl)
• Romanian: alb ca zăpada
• Russian: белосне́жный (ru) (belosnéžnyj)
• Slovak: snehobiely
• Ukrainian: білосні́жний (uk) (bilosnížnyj)
• Welsh: mor wyn â'r eira m, mor wen â'r eira f