white as snow en · ADJ
Pronunciation
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Meanings
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(not-comparable, qualifier:simile) Very white.
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 30:Mary had a little lamb whose fleece was white as snow.
1830, Sarah Josepha Hale, Mary Had a Little Lamb:
Antonyms
Deriveds
snow-white · snow white · Snow White
Synonyms
white as a sheet · white as driven snow
Translations (26)
ro alb ca zăpada (very white) · ga chomh geal le sneachta (very white) · ba ҡарҙай аҡ (very white) · fr blanc comme neige (very white) · io nivea (very white) · he צח כשלג (very white) · kk қардай ақ (very white) · de schneeweiß (very white) · cs sněhobílý (very white) · vi trắng như tuyết (very white) · crh qar kibi beyaz (very white) · cy mor wen â'r eira (very white) · sk snehobiely (very white) · uk білосні́жний (very white) · mn цас шиг цагаан (very white) · bg сне́жнобя́л (very white) · cy mor wyn â'r eira (very white) · mn сүү шиг цагаан (very white) · gl branco como a neve (very white) · ga sneachtúil (very white) · pl śnieżnobiały (very white) · fi lumivalkoinen (very white) · ga sneachtach (very white) · ga ar ghile an tsneachta (very white) · be беласне́жны (very white) · ru белосне́жный (very white)