"Snowdon" meaning in English

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Proper name

Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-Snowdon.wav [Southern-England] Forms: Snowdons [plural]
Rhymes: -əʊdən Etymology: From Old English snaw+dun, Literally, “snow hill” Etymology templates: {{der|en|ang|snaw+dun}} Old English snaw+dun, {{m|en|snow hill}} snow hill, {{m-g|<i class="Latn mention" lang="en">snow hill</i>}} “snow hill”, {{lit|<i class="Latn mention" lang="en">snow hill</i>}} Literally, “snow hill” Head templates: {{en-proper noun|~}} Snowdon (countable and uncountable, plural Snowdons)
  1. A placename:
    The highest mountain in Wales at 1,085 metres high, in the county of Gwynedd (OS grid ref SH6054).
    Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (place): Mountains, Places in Gwynedd, Wales, Places in Wales
    Sense id: en-Snowdon-en-name-yHxIJs6w Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 10 36 17 37
  2. A placename:
    A hill 495 metres high, on Dartmoor, South Hams district, Devon, England (OS grid ref SX6668).
    Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (place): Hills, Places in Devon, England, Places in England
    Sense id: en-Snowdon-en-name-B9ahj5fL Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 10 36 17 37
  3. A placename:
    A neighbourhood of Montreal, Quebec, Canada, in the borough of Côte-des-Neiges–Notre-Dame-de-Grâce, named after James Snowdon.
    Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (place): Places in Canada, Places in Montreal, Places in Quebec Derived forms: Snowden, Snowdonia Related terms: Snowdown
    Sense id: en-Snowdon-en-name-MfVWxDV7 Categories (other): Neighbourhoods in Quebec, English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 10 36 17 37
  4. An English habitational surname from toponymy [in turn from Old English] for someone who lived in any of these places. Tags: countable, uncountable Translations (Welsh mountain): Gouezva [feminine] (Breton), 斯諾登 (Chinese Mandarin), 斯诺登 (Sīnuòdēng) (Chinese Mandarin), スノードン (Sunōdon) (Japanese), 스노든 (seunodeun) (Korean), Snoudonas [masculine] (Lithuanian), Сноудон (Snoudon) [masculine] (Macedonian), स्नोडन (snoḍan) (Marathi), Сно́удон (Snóudon) [masculine] (Russian), Сноудон (Snoudon) [masculine] (Ukrainian), Yr Wyddfa [feminine] (Welsh)
    Sense id: en-Snowdon-en-name-XihMJj8m Categories (other): English surnames, English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 10 36 17 37 Disambiguation of 'Welsh mountain': 30 17 14 40

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