The dog jumped into the snowdrift.
Source: tatoeba (8985353)
Snowdrift
//ˈsnəʊdɹɪft//
Synonyms for "snowdrift" (59 found)
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Closest matches (12)
Strong matches (18)
Related words (29)
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72 translations across 45 languages.
Azerbaijani
1 entries- kürtük noun (bank of snow)
Bashkir
1 entries- көрт noun (bank of snow)
Bulgarian
1 entries- преспа noun (bank of snow)
Catalan
3 entries- congesta noun (bank of snow)
- cúmul de neu noun (bank of snow)
- pila de neu noun (bank of snow)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 雪堆 noun (bank of snow)
Czech
1 entries- sněhová závěj noun (bank of snow)
Danish
2 entries- snedrive noun (bank of snow)
- snefane noun (bank of snow)
Dutch
3 entries- sneeuwbank noun (bank of snow)
- sneeuwdrift noun (bank of snow)
- sneeuwduin noun (bank of snow)
Erzya
1 entries- шушмо noun (bank of snow)
Esperanto
1 entries- neĝamaso noun (bank of snow)
Estonian
1 entries- lumehang noun (bank of snow)
Faroese
1 entries- kavafonn noun (bank of snow)
Finnish
4 entries- kinos noun (bank of snow)
- lumikinos noun (bank of snow)
- lumivalli noun (bank of snow)
- nietos noun (bank of snow)
French
1 entries- congère noun (bank of snow)
Georgian
1 entries- ნამქერი noun (bank of snow)
German
2 entries- Schneeverwehung noun (bank of snow)
- Schneewehe noun (bank of snow)
Greek
1 entries- χιονοστιβάδα noun (bank of snow)
Greenlandic
2 entries- apusineq noun (bank of snow)
- aputip qingartagaa noun (bank of snow)
Hawaiian
1 entries- ʻapukāka noun (bank of snow)
Hungarian
4 entries- hóbucka noun (bank of snow)
- hófúvás noun (bank of snow)
- hókupac noun (bank of snow)
- hótorlasz noun (bank of snow)
Icelandic
1 entries- snjóskafli noun (bank of snow)
Ido
1 entries- niv-amaso noun (bank of snow)
Ingrian
4 entries- hanki noun (bank of snow)
- kulvehto noun (bank of snow)
- lumihanki noun (bank of snow)
- lumikulvehto noun (bank of snow)
Irish
1 entries- ráth sneachta noun (bank of snow)
Italian
1 entries- cumulo di neve noun (bank of snow)
Kazakh
2 entries- күртік noun (bank of snow)
- омбы noun (bank of snow)
Latin
1 entries- cumulus nivis noun (bank of snow)
Livvi-Karelian
2 entries- hangi noun (bank of snow)
- kivos noun (bank of snow)
Macedonian
2 entries- пре́спа noun (bank of snow)
- со́спа noun (bank of snow)
Mingrelian
2 entries- ლანქერი noun (bank of snow)
- ლენქერი noun (bank of snow)
Norwegian Bokmål
2 entries- snødrive noun (bank of snow)
- snøfonn noun (bank of snow)
Norwegian Nynorsk
2 entries- snødrive noun (bank of snow)
- snøfonn noun (bank of snow)
Polish
2 entries- zaspa noun (bank of snow)
- zaspa śnieżna noun (bank of snow)
Portuguese
1 entries- acúmulo de neve noun (bank of snow)
Romanian
2 entries- nămete noun (bank of snow)
- troian noun (bank of snow)
Russian
1 entries- сугро́б noun (bank of snow)
Slovak
1 entries- závej noun (bank of snow)
Spanish
1 entries- cúmulo de nieve noun (bank of snow)
Svan
1 entries- ნენქერ noun (bank of snow)
Swedish
2 entries- snödriva noun (bank of snow)
- snövall noun (bank of snow)
Tofa
1 entries- һөртүк noun (bank of snow)
Ukrainian
1 entries- заме́т noun (bank of snow)
Volapük
1 entries- nifakum noun (bank of snow)
Walloon
3 entries- banc d' nive noun (bank of snow)
- consire noun (bank of snow)
- sconsire noun (bank of snow)
Welsh
1 entries- lluwchfa noun (bank of snow)
Sample sentences
3 total sentences available.
The car got stuck in a deep snowdrift on the side of the road.
Source: tatoeba (13330410)
In winter the line between Barnard Castle and Kirkby Stephen was regularly blocked by snowdrifts; in 1947, for instance, it was closed for eight weeks and only three weeks before it was finally closed no trains were able to use it for three days because of thick snow.
Source: wiktionary
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