The train was held up for two hours on account of the snowstorm.
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Snowstorm
//ˈsnəʊstɔːm//
Synonyms for "snowstorm" (81 found)
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122 translations across 56 languages.
Albanian
1 entries- stuhi dëbore noun (bad weather involving blowing winds and snow)
Ancient Greek
1 entries- νιφετός noun (bad weather involving blowing winds and snow)
Armenian
2 entries- բուք noun (bad weather involving blowing winds and snow)
- ձյունամրրիկ noun (bad weather involving blowing winds and snow)
Azerbaijani
2 entries- boran noun (bad weather involving blowing winds and snow)
- çalpov noun (bad weather involving blowing winds and snow)
Bashkir
1 entries- буран noun (bad weather involving blowing winds and snow)
Belarusian
4 entries- буран noun (bad weather involving blowing winds and snow)
- віхура noun (bad weather involving blowing winds and snow)
- завея noun (bad weather involving blowing winds and snow)
- завіруха noun (bad weather involving blowing winds and snow)
Catalan
1 entries- nevada noun (bad weather involving blowing winds and snow)
Chinese Mandarin
3 entries- 大風雪 /大风雪 noun (bad weather involving blowing winds and snow)
- 暴風雪 /暴风雪 noun (bad weather involving blowing winds and snow)
- 雪災 /雪灾 noun (bad weather involving blowing winds and snow)
Czech
4 entries- blizard noun (bad weather involving blowing winds and snow)
- metelice noun (bad weather involving blowing winds and snow)
- sněhová bouře noun (bad weather involving blowing winds and snow)
- sněhová vichřice noun (bad weather involving blowing winds and snow)
Danish
1 entries- snestorm noun (bad weather involving blowing winds and snow)
Dutch
1 entries- sneeuwstorm noun (bad weather involving blowing winds and snow)
Esperanto
1 entries- neĝoŝtormo noun (bad weather involving blowing winds and snow)
Faroese
1 entries- kavaæl noun (bad weather involving blowing winds and snow)
Finnish
3 entries- lumimyrsky noun (bad weather involving blowing winds and snow)
- myräkkä noun (bad weather involving blowing winds and snow)
- pyry noun (bad weather involving blowing winds and snow)
French
2 entries- boule à neige noun (snow globe)
- tempête de neige noun (bad weather involving blowing winds and snow)
Georgian
1 entries- ქარბუქი noun (bad weather involving blowing winds and snow)
German
1 entries- Schneesturm noun (bad weather involving blowing winds and snow)
Greek
1 entries- χιονοθύελλα noun (bad weather involving blowing winds and snow)
Hebrew
1 entries- סופת שלג noun (bad weather involving blowing winds and snow)
Hindi
2 entries- हिम आँधी noun (bad weather involving blowing winds and snow)
- हिमाँधी noun (bad weather involving blowing winds and snow)
Hungarian
2 entries- hóförgeteg noun (bad weather involving blowing winds and snow)
- hóvihar noun (bad weather involving blowing winds and snow)
Icelandic
3 entries- kafaldsbylur noun (bad weather involving blowing winds and snow)
- snjóstormur noun (bad weather involving blowing winds and snow)
- stórhríð noun (bad weather involving blowing winds and snow)
Ingrian
4 entries- alasvaahto noun (bad weather involving blowing winds and snow)
- lumipyry noun (bad weather involving blowing winds and snow)
- lumisää noun (bad weather involving blowing winds and snow)
- lumitormi noun (bad weather involving blowing winds and snow)
Italian
1 entries- tormenta noun (bad weather involving blowing winds and snow)
Japanese
2 entries- 吹雪 noun (bad weather involving blowing winds and snow)
- 暴風雪 noun (bad weather involving blowing winds and snow)
Kazakh
1 entries- боран noun (bad weather involving blowing winds and snow)
Korean
1 entries- 눈보라 noun (bad weather involving blowing winds and snow)
Latgalian
1 entries- viejputnis noun (bad weather involving blowing winds and snow)
Latin
2 entries- nigor noun (bad weather involving blowing winds and snow)
- ningor noun (bad weather involving blowing winds and snow)
Latvian
2 entries- putenis noun (bad weather involving blowing winds and snow)
- sniegputenis noun (bad weather involving blowing winds and snow)
Lithuanian
1 entries- pūga noun (bad weather involving blowing winds and snow)
Luxembourgish
1 entries- Schnéistuerm noun (bad weather involving blowing winds and snow)
Macedonian
1 entries- виу́лица noun (bad weather involving blowing winds and snow)
Navajo
1 entries- chííl noun (bad weather involving blowing winds and snow)
Northern Kurdish
1 entries- pûk noun (bad weather involving blowing winds and snow)
Norwegian
1 entries- snøstorm noun (bad weather involving blowing winds and snow)
Old Armenian
1 entries- բուք noun (bad weather involving blowing winds and snow)
Old English
1 entries- snāwġebland noun (bad weather involving blowing winds and snow)
Persian
1 entries- بوران noun (bad weather involving blowing winds and snow)
Polish
3 entries- zamieć noun (bad weather involving blowing winds and snow)
- zawieja noun (bad weather involving blowing winds and snow)
- śnieżyca noun (bad weather involving blowing winds and snow)
Portuguese
3 entries- nevasca noun (bad weather involving blowing winds and snow)
- nevão noun (bad weather involving blowing winds and snow)
- tempestade de neve noun (bad weather involving blowing winds and snow)
Romanian
4 entries- furtună de nea noun (bad weather involving blowing winds and snow)
- furtună de zăpadă noun (bad weather involving blowing winds and snow)
- vifor noun (bad weather involving blowing winds and snow)
- viscol noun (bad weather involving blowing winds and snow)
Russian
4 entries- бура́н noun (bad weather involving blowing winds and snow)
- вью́га noun (bad weather involving blowing winds and snow)
- мете́ль noun (bad weather involving blowing winds and snow)
- пурга́ noun (bad weather involving blowing winds and snow)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- mèćava noun (bad weather involving blowing winds and snow)
- мѐћава noun (bad weather involving blowing winds and snow)
Slovak
2 entries- fujavica noun (bad weather involving blowing winds and snow)
- snehová búrka noun (bad weather involving blowing winds and snow)
Slovene
1 entries- snežni vihar noun (bad weather involving blowing winds and snow)
Southern Altai
1 entries- бороон noun (bad weather involving blowing winds and snow)
Spanish
4 entries- nevasca noun (bad weather involving blowing winds and snow)
- nevazón noun (bad weather involving blowing winds and snow)
- tormenta de nieve noun (bad weather involving blowing winds and snow)
- tormenta nival noun (bad weather involving blowing winds and snow)
Swedish
1 entries- snöstorm noun (bad weather involving blowing winds and snow)
Telugu
1 entries- మంచు తుఫాను noun (bad weather involving blowing winds and snow)
Thai
1 entries- พายุหิมะ noun (bad weather involving blowing winds and snow)
Tibetan
1 entries- གངས་འུར noun (bad weather involving blowing winds and snow)
Turkish
2 entries- kar fırtınası noun (bad weather involving blowing winds and snow)
- tipi noun (bad weather involving blowing winds and snow)
Ukrainian
4 entries- ві́хола noun (bad weather involving blowing winds and snow)
- заві́я noun (bad weather involving blowing winds and snow)
- завірю́ха noun (bad weather involving blowing winds and snow)
- заметі́ль noun (bad weather involving blowing winds and snow)
Uyghur
1 entries- شىۋىرغان noun (bad weather involving blowing winds and snow)
Vietnamese
1 entries- bão tuyết noun (bad weather involving blowing winds and snow)
Sample sentences
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A heavy snowstorm kept us from going out.
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Driving through that snowstorm was a nightmare.
Source: tatoeba (68055)
The snowstorm held on.
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