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English
Etymology
From snow + -s (suffix forming pluralia tantum and regular plurals of nouns; and the third-person singular indicative present tense of verbs).
Pronunciation
Noun
snows pl (plural only)
- One or both regions of the Earth where it snows the year round; the Arctic and/or Antarctic.
1844 February 7 (date delivered), Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Young American: A Lecture Read before the Mercantile Library Association, in Boston, at the Odeon, Wednesday, February 7, 1844, London: John Chapman, , published 1844, →OCLC, page 10:To men legislating for the vast area betwixt the two oceans, betwixt the snows and the tropics, somewhat of the gravity and grandeur of nature will infuse itself into the code.
- (informal) Clipping of snow tires.
You’d better be wearing your snows next week.
1984 April 7, “Classified advertisement”, in Gay Community News, page 15:74 VW dyke mobile, 75K miles. Immac in/out & great to drive. No rust! Includes roofrack, snows, manual.
- (poetic, dated) A woman's pale-coloured breasts.
Translations
Noun
snows
- plural of snow
The snows in Alaska are quite different from the snows here.
Verb
snows
- third-person singular simple present indicative of snow