Meanings
adjectivewhite as snow (not comparable)
- not comparablesimileVery white.
Mary had a little lamb whose fleece was white as snow.
1830, Sarah Josepha Hale, Mary Had a Little Lamb1 more example
At last with creeping crooked pace forth came / An old old man, with beard as white as snow, / That on a staffe his feeble steps did frame,
1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto VIII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 30Synonyms: white as a sheet, white as driven snow
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveVery white.
Opposite
Translations
Bulgarian сне́жнобя́л
- сне́жнобя́л (snéžnobjál)very white
Czech sněhobílý
- sněhobílývery white
Finnish lumivalkoinen
- lumivalkoinenvery white
French blanc comme neige
- blanc comme neigevery white
German schneeweiß
- schneeweißvery white
Hebrew צח כשלג
- צח כשלג (tzách kashéleg)very white
Irish chomh geal le sneachta, ar ghile an tsneachta
- chomh geal le sneachtavery white
- ar ghile an tsneachtavery white
- sneachtúilvery white
- sneachtachvery white
Polish śnieżnobiały
- śnieżnobiałyvery white
Romanian alb ca zăpada
- alb ca zăpadavery white
Russian белосне́жный
- белосне́жный (belosnéžnyj)very white
Slovak snehobiely
- snehobielyvery white
Ukrainian білосні́жний
- білосні́жний (bilosnížnyj)very white
Vietnamese trắng như tuyết
- trắng như tuyếtvery white
Welsh mor wyn â'r eira, mor wen â'r eira
- mor wyn â'r eiravery white
- mor wen â'r eiravery white
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