Snowdon
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Etymology edit
From Old English snaw+dun, Literally, “snow hill”
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Proper noun edit
Snowdon (countable and uncountable, plural Snowdons)
- A placename:
- The highest mountain in Wales at 1,085 metres high, in the county of Gwynedd (OS grid ref SH6054).
- A hill 495 metres high, on Dartmoor, South Hams district, Devon, England (OS grid ref SX6668).
- A neighbourhood of Montreal, Quebec, Canada, in the borough of Côte-des-Neiges–Notre-Dame-de-Grâce, named after James Snowdon.
- An English habitational surname from toponymy [in turn from Old English] for someone who lived in any of these places.
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Welsh mountain