"Snowmageddon" meaning in English

See Snowmageddon in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Proper name

Etymology: snow + -mageddon, popularized by Barack Obama in 2010. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|snow|mageddon}} snow + -mageddon Head templates: {{en-proper noun}} Snowmageddon
  1. (informal) A severe blizzard or series of blizzards affecting one locale. Wikipedia link: Barack Obama Tags: informal Categories (topical): Snow Synonyms: blizzaster, snowpocalypse, snow-mageddon, snowmageddon

Alternative forms

Download JSON data for Snowmageddon meaning in English (2.6kB)

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "snow",
        "3": "mageddon"
      },
      "expansion": "snow + -mageddon",
      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "snow + -mageddon, popularized by Barack Obama in 2010.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "Snowmageddon",
      "name": "en-proper noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "name",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with topic categories using raw markup",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with topic categories using raw markup",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms suffixed with -mageddon",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Snow",
          "orig": "en:Snow",
          "parents": [
            "Water",
            "Weather",
            "Liquids",
            "Atmosphere",
            "Matter",
            "Nature",
            "Chemistry",
            "All topics",
            "Sciences",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2008 December 17, “'Snow-mageddon' in Toronto?”, in CBC News",
          "text": "A weather bulletin from Environment Canada warned that much of southern Ontario will be hit Friday and Sunday by significant snowstorms. The storms appear ominous enough that officials compiling the bulletin actually wrote, \"Could this be snow-mageddon?\"",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2008, Chris Wright, Winter Blast",
          "text": "Unfortunately, their peaceful existence would soon be disturbed by a new villain. More evil and twice as despicable, Snowmageddon had come to town.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2010, Rose A. Valenta, Sitting on Cold Porcelain, Xlibris Corporation, page 17",
          "text": "It was Super Bowl 44 Sunday. Snowmageddon was upon us like “The Day After Tomorrow.”",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2010 February 6, David Batty, “‘Snowmageddon’ brings Washington to a standstill”, in The Guardian",
          "text": "A massive blizzard dubbed \"Snowmageddon\" by president Barack Obama is causing chaos in the eastern US, with parts of the region buried under more than 20in [50cm] of snow.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A severe blizzard or series of blizzards affecting one locale."
      ],
      "id": "en-Snowmageddon-en-name-doWc5LPo",
      "links": [
        [
          "blizzard",
          "blizzard"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(informal) A severe blizzard or series of blizzards affecting one locale."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "blizzaster"
        },
        {
          "word": "snowpocalypse"
        },
        {
          "word": "snow-mageddon"
        },
        {
          "word": "snowmageddon"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "informal"
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "Barack Obama"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "Snowmageddon"
}
{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "snow",
        "3": "mageddon"
      },
      "expansion": "snow + -mageddon",
      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "snow + -mageddon, popularized by Barack Obama in 2010.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "Snowmageddon",
      "name": "en-proper noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "name",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English entries with topic categories using raw markup",
        "English informal terms",
        "English lemmas",
        "English proper nouns",
        "English terms suffixed with -mageddon",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English uncountable nouns",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned",
        "en:Snow"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2008 December 17, “'Snow-mageddon' in Toronto?”, in CBC News",
          "text": "A weather bulletin from Environment Canada warned that much of southern Ontario will be hit Friday and Sunday by significant snowstorms. The storms appear ominous enough that officials compiling the bulletin actually wrote, \"Could this be snow-mageddon?\"",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2008, Chris Wright, Winter Blast",
          "text": "Unfortunately, their peaceful existence would soon be disturbed by a new villain. More evil and twice as despicable, Snowmageddon had come to town.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2010, Rose A. Valenta, Sitting on Cold Porcelain, Xlibris Corporation, page 17",
          "text": "It was Super Bowl 44 Sunday. Snowmageddon was upon us like “The Day After Tomorrow.”",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2010 February 6, David Batty, “‘Snowmageddon’ brings Washington to a standstill”, in The Guardian",
          "text": "A massive blizzard dubbed \"Snowmageddon\" by president Barack Obama is causing chaos in the eastern US, with parts of the region buried under more than 20in [50cm] of snow.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A severe blizzard or series of blizzards affecting one locale."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "blizzard",
          "blizzard"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(informal) A severe blizzard or series of blizzards affecting one locale."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "blizzaster"
        },
        {
          "word": "snowpocalypse"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "informal"
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "Barack Obama"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "snow-mageddon"
    },
    {
      "word": "snowmageddon"
    }
  ],
  "word": "Snowmageddon"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-20 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (1d5a7d1 and 304864d). 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.