"Snowden" meaning in English

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Proper name

Forms: Snowdens [plural]
Etymology: From Snowdon. Head templates: {{en-prop|~|s}} Snowden (countable and uncountable, plural Snowdens)
  1. A surname, variant of Snowdon. Tags: countable, uncountable
    Sense id: en-Snowden-en-name-riq6YN0G Categories (other): English surnames
  2. An unincorporated community in Lincoln County, West Virginia, United States. Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (place): Places in West Virginia, USA, Places in the United States, Unincorporated communities in West Virginia, USA, Unincorporated communities in the United States
    Sense id: en-Snowden-en-name-6PU9SKCd Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 10 90 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 15 85 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 11 89

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "2014 April 6, David E. Sanger, “U.S. tries candor to assure China on cyberattacks”, in The New York Times:",
          "text": "[D]isclosures about America's own focus on cyberweaponry – including American-led attacks on Iran's nuclear infrastructure and National Security Agency documents revealed in the trove taken by Edward J. Snowden, the former agency contractor – detail the degree to which the United States has engaged in what the intelligence world calls \"cyberexploitation\" of targets in China.",
          "type": "quote"
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        {
          "ref": "2020 September 2, Raphael Satter, “U.S. court: Mass surveillance program exposed by Snowden was illegal”, in Tom Brown, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 2020-11-01, Media & Telecoms:",
          "text": "Evidence that the NSA was secretly building a vast database of U.S. telephone records - the who, the how, the when, and the where of millions of mobile calls - was the first and arguably the most explosive of the Snowden revelations published by the Guardian newspaper in 2013.",
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