snow-white
adjEtymology
From Middle English snow whit, snowe-white, snouwite, snawhwit, from Old English snāwhwīt, from Proto-West Germanic *snaiwhwīt, from Proto-Germanic *snaiwahwītaz; equivalent to snow + white. Cognate with Dutch sneeuwwit (“snow-white”), German schneeweiß (“snow-white”), Swedish snövit (“snow-white”).
- inherited from *snaiwahwītaz✻
- inherited from *snaiwhwīt✻
- inherited from snāwhwīt
- inherited from snow whit
Definitions
As white as snow
As white as snow; exceptionally white.
- One day he wandered to the banks of the Rhine. On its discolored waters swam a snow-white swan, playfully pulling at the rope which bound a small skiff to the shore.
- It was also a delight to see a racially mixed band from Boston. Too bad that the crowd was snow white. We've all still got a helluva long way to go.
A Caucasian person, especially a woman.
The neighborhood
- antonymcoal black
- antonymcoal-black
- antonymcoalblack
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for snow-white. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA