"snow day" meaning in All languages combined

See snow day on Wiktionary

Noun [English]

Forms: snow days [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} snow day (plural snow days)
  1. A day when a school or other workplace is closed due to bad winter weather, especially snow.
    Sense id: en-snow_day-en-noun-HwofDWxw
  2. A day when a school or other workplace is closed due to bad winter weather, especially snow.
    (by extension) A day when a school or other workplace is closed due to weather
    Tags: broadly
    Sense id: en-snow_day-en-noun-rWliaQgf
  3. (US) A day set aside on a school calendar in certain climates, assuming a closure will occur during a given time period. Tags: US Translations (day off from school): ijsvrij [neuter] (Dutch)
    Sense id: en-snow_day-en-noun-iVdtaqLa Categories (other): American English, English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 15 15 52 17 2 Disambiguation of 'day off from school': 22 22 31 19 6
  4. (meteorology) A day on which a fall of snow is observed. Categories (topical): Meteorology
    Sense id: en-snow_day-en-noun-oKHMmwJN Topics: climatology, meteorology, natural-sciences
  5. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see snow, day.
    Sense id: en-snow_day-en-noun-IYsqc7Rx
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: white Christmas, white Easter

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for snow day meaning in All languages combined (2.5kB)

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "snow days",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "snow day (plural snow days)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "_dis1": "21 21 13 22 23",
      "word": "white Christmas"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "21 21 13 22 23",
      "word": "white Easter"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "A day when a school or other workplace is closed due to bad winter weather, especially snow."
      ],
      "id": "en-snow_day-en-noun-HwofDWxw",
      "links": [
        [
          "school",
          "school"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "Coordinate term: heat day"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A day when a school or other workplace is closed due to bad winter weather, especially snow.",
        "A day when a school or other workplace is closed due to weather"
      ],
      "id": "en-snow_day-en-noun-rWliaQgf",
      "links": [
        [
          "school",
          "school"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "A day when a school or other workplace is closed due to bad winter weather, especially snow.",
        "(by extension) A day when a school or other workplace is closed due to weather"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "broadly"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "American English",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "15 15 52 17 2",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A day set aside on a school calendar in certain climates, assuming a closure will occur during a given time period."
      ],
      "id": "en-snow_day-en-noun-iVdtaqLa",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(US) A day set aside on a school calendar in certain climates, assuming a closure will occur during a given time period."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "_dis1": "22 22 31 19 6",
          "code": "nl",
          "lang": "Dutch",
          "sense": "day off from school",
          "tags": [
            "neuter"
          ],
          "word": "ijsvrij"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Meteorology",
          "orig": "en:Meteorology",
          "parents": [
            "Atmosphere",
            "Earth sciences",
            "Nature",
            "Sciences",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A day on which a fall of snow is observed."
      ],
      "id": "en-snow_day-en-noun-oKHMmwJN",
      "links": [
        [
          "meteorology",
          "meteorology"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(meteorology) A day on which a fall of snow is observed."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "climatology",
        "meteorology",
        "natural-sciences"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see snow, day."
      ],
      "id": "en-snow_day-en-noun-IYsqc7Rx",
      "links": [
        [
          "snow",
          "snow#English"
        ],
        [
          "day",
          "day#English"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "en:snow day"
  ],
  "word": "snow day"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English multiword terms",
    "English nouns"
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "snow days",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "snow day (plural snow days)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "white Christmas"
    },
    {
      "word": "white Easter"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "A day when a school or other workplace is closed due to bad winter weather, especially snow."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "school",
          "school"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "Coordinate term: heat day"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A day when a school or other workplace is closed due to bad winter weather, especially snow.",
        "A day when a school or other workplace is closed due to weather"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "school",
          "school"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "A day when a school or other workplace is closed due to bad winter weather, especially snow.",
        "(by extension) A day when a school or other workplace is closed due to weather"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "broadly"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "American English"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A day set aside on a school calendar in certain climates, assuming a closure will occur during a given time period."
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(US) A day set aside on a school calendar in certain climates, assuming a closure will occur during a given time period."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "en:Meteorology"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A day on which a fall of snow is observed."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "meteorology",
          "meteorology"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(meteorology) A day on which a fall of snow is observed."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "climatology",
        "meteorology",
        "natural-sciences"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see snow, day."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "snow",
          "snow#English"
        ],
        [
          "day",
          "day#English"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "day off from school",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "ijsvrij"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "en:snow day"
  ],
  "word": "snow day"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-04-30 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-04-21 using wiktextract (210104c and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.