Snake
See also: snake
English edit
Proper noun edit
Snake (countable and uncountable, plural Snakes)
- (astrology, timekeeping) The sixth of the 12-year cycle of animals which appear in the Chinese zodiac related to the Chinese calendar.
- (video games) An early computer game, later popular on mobile phones, in which the player attempts to manoeuvre a perpetually growing snake so as to collect food items and avoid colliding with walls or the snake's tail.
- A surname.
- A placename:
- A river in the northwestern United States, tributary to the Columbia.
- Ellipsis of Snake Island..
See also edit
- (Chinese zodiac signs) Rat, Ox, Tiger, Rabbit, Dragon, Snake, Horse, Goat, Monkey, Rooster, Dog, Pig (Category: en:Chinese zodiac signs)
Anagrams edit
German Low German edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
From Middle Low German snāke, from Old Saxon *snako, from Proto-West Germanic *snakō (“snake”).
Noun edit
Snake m (plural Snaken)