The children were rolling a big snowball.
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Snowball
//ˈsnəʊbɔːl//
Synonyms for "snowball" (117 found)
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Closest matches (24)
Strong matches (35)
Related words (58)
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6 entriesderived
24 entriesShowing 16 of 24 words.
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2 entrieshas context
1 entriesis a
4 entriesmanner of
2 entriesreceives action
1 entriesrelated to
7 entriesTranslations
76 translations across 50 languages.
Afrikaans
1 entries- sneeubal noun (ball of snow)
Arabic
1 entries- كُرَة اَلثَّلْج noun (ball of snow)
Armenian
1 entries- ձնագնդիկ noun (ball of snow)
Basque
1 entries- elur-bola noun (ball of snow)
Breton
2 entries- kouign-erc'h noun (ball of snow)
- pouloudenn erc’h noun (ball of snow)
Bulgarian
1 entries- снежна топка noun (ball of snow)
Catalan
1 entries- bola de neu noun (ball of snow)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 雪球 noun (ball of snow)
Czech
1 entries- sněhová koule noun (ball of snow)
Danish
1 entries- snebold noun (ball of snow)
Dutch
1 entries- sneeuwbal noun (ball of snow)
Esperanto
1 entries- neĝobulo noun (ball of snow)
Faroese
2 entries- kavablak noun (ball of snow)
- kavabóltur noun (ball of snow)
Finnish
4 entries- lumipallo noun (ball of snow)
- lumipallo noun (cocktail)
- leikkiä lumisotaa verb (play at throwing snowballs)
- olla lumisotasilla verb (play at throwing snowballs)
French
2 entries- balle de neige noun (ball of snow)
- boule de neige noun (ball of snow)
Galician
1 entries- bóla de neve noun (ball of snow)
Georgian
2 entries- გუნდა noun (ball of snow)
- თოვლის გუნდა noun (ball of snow)
German
1 entries- Schneeball noun (ball of snow)
Greek
1 entries- χιονόμπαλα noun (ball of snow)
Hebrew
1 entries- כדור שלג noun (ball of snow)
Hungarian
1 entries- hógolyó noun (ball of snow)
Icelandic
1 entries- snjóbolti noun (ball of snow)
Ido
1 entries- nivobulo noun (ball of snow)
Indonesian
1 entries- bola salju noun (ball of snow)
Ingrian
2 entries- lumipallo noun (ball of snow)
- lumipamppu noun (ball of snow)
Italian
1 entries- palla di neve noun (ball of snow)
Japanese
4 entries- スノーボール noun (cocktail)
- 雪だるま noun (ball of snow)
- 雪つぶて noun (ball of snow)
- 雪玉 noun (ball of snow)
Korean
1 entries- 눈덩이 noun (ball of snow)
Latgalian
1 entries- snīga pyks noun (ball of snow)
Latin
2 entries- globus nivis noun (ball of snow)
- pila nivis noun (ball of snow)
Latvian
1 entries- sniega pika noun (ball of snow)
Lithuanian
1 entries- sniego gniūžtė noun (ball of snow)
Luxembourgish
2 entries- Schnéiball noun (ball of snow)
- Schnéiklatz noun (ball of snow)
Norman
1 entries- boule dé né noun (ball of snow)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- snøball noun (ball of snow)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- snøball noun (ball of snow)
Ottoman Turkish
1 entries- قار طوپی noun (ball of snow)
Persian
1 entries- گلوله برف noun (ball of snow)
Polish
3 entries- kulka śniegowa noun (ball of snow)
- kulka śnieżna noun (ball of snow)
- śnieżka noun (ball of snow)
Portuguese
1 entries- bola de neve noun (ball of snow)
Romanian
1 entries- bulgăre de zăpadă noun (ball of snow)
Russian
3 entries- сне́жный ком noun (ball of snow)
- снежо́к noun (ball of snow)
- снежо́к noun (cocktail)
Serbo-Croatian
3 entries- gruda noun (ball of snow)
- grudva noun (ball of snow)
- грудва noun (ball of snow)
Sotho
1 entries- bolo ya lehloa noun (ball of snow)
Spanish
3 entries- bola de nieve noun (ball of snow)
- bola nival noun (ball of snow)
- bola nívea noun (ball of snow)
Swedish
2 entries- snöboll noun (ball of snow)
- ha snöbollskrig verb (play at throwing snowballs)
Turkish
1 entries- kar topu noun (ball of snow)
Turkmen
1 entries- gar zyňyşmak verb (play at throwing snowballs)
Ukrainian
2 entries- сні́жка noun (ball of snow)
- сні́жка noun (cocktail)
Welsh
1 entries- pelen eira noun (ball of snow)
Sample sentences
15 total sentences available.
We had a snowball fight.
Source: tatoeba (248966)
A small snowball is capable of starting an avalanche.
Source: tatoeba (1077670)
Shall we have a snowball fight?
Source: tatoeba (1304925)
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