"snow-white" meaning in English

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Adjective

Audio: En-au-snow-white.ogg
Etymology: From Middle English snow whit, snowe-white, snouwite, snawhwit, from Old English snāwhwīt, from Proto-West Germanic *snaiwhwīt, from Proto-Germanic *snaiwahwītaz; equivalent to snow + white. Cognate with Dutch sneeuwwit (“snow-white”), German schneeweiß (“snow-white”), Swedish snövit (“snow-white”). Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|snow whit}} Middle English snow whit, {{inh|en|ang|snāwhwīt}} Old English snāwhwīt, {{inh|en|gmw-pro|*snaiwhwīt}} Proto-West Germanic *snaiwhwīt, {{inh|en|gem-pro|*snaiwahwītaz}} Proto-Germanic *snaiwahwītaz, {{com|en|snow|white}} snow + white, {{cog|nl|sneeuwwit|t=snow-white}} Dutch sneeuwwit (“snow-white”), {{cog|de|schneeweiß|t=snow-white}} German schneeweiß (“snow-white”), {{cog|sv|snövit|t=snow-white}} Swedish snövit (“snow-white”) Head templates: {{en-adj|-}} snow-white (not comparable)
  1. As white as snow; exceptionally white. Tags: not-comparable Synonyms: lily-white, niveous Derived forms: Snow White, snow-whiteness Translations (as white as snow): ağappaq (Azerbaijani), беласне́жны (bjelasnjéžny) (Belarusian), 純白 /纯白 (chúnbái) (Chinese Mandarin), snehvid (Danish), sneeuwwit (Dutch), neĝblanka (Esperanto), lumivalge (Estonian), lumivalkoinen (Finnish), vitivalkoinen (Finnish), blanc immaculé [masculine] (French), níveo (Galician), ქათქათა (katkata) (Georgian), სპეტაკი (sṗeṭaḳi) (Georgian), schneeweiß (German), schlohweiß (German), χιονόλευκος (chionólefkos) [masculine] (Greek), κατάλευκος (katálefkos) (Greek), κάτασπρος (kátaspros) (Greek), ολόλευκος (olólefkos) (Greek), ολόασπρος (olóaspros) (Greek), πάλλευκος (pállefkos) (Greek), hófehér (Hungarian), mjallhvítur (Icelandic), nivea (Ido), bianco-neve (Italian), niveo (Italian), 雪白 (seppaku) (alt: せっぱく) (Japanese), 純白 (junpaku) (alt: じゅんぱく) (Japanese), 백설 (baekseol) (Korean), niveus (Latin), schnéiwäiss (Luxembourgish), snøhvit (Norwegian Bokmål), śnieżnobiały [masculine] (Polish), branco de neve (Portuguese), níveo (Portuguese), alb ca neaua (Romanian), alb ca zăpada (Romanian), белосне́жный (belosnéžnyj) (Russian), blanconieve (Spanish), nevado (Spanish), níveo (Spanish), snövit (Swedish), сап-сафед (sap-safed) (Tajik), karbeyaz (Turkish), білосні́жний (bilosnížnyj) (Ukrainian)
    Sense id: en-snow-white-en-adj-J2OdiBim

Noun

Audio: En-au-snow-white.ogg Forms: snow-whites [plural]
Etymology: From Middle English snow whit, snowe-white, snouwite, snawhwit, from Old English snāwhwīt, from Proto-West Germanic *snaiwhwīt, from Proto-Germanic *snaiwahwītaz; equivalent to snow + white. Cognate with Dutch sneeuwwit (“snow-white”), German schneeweiß (“snow-white”), Swedish snövit (“snow-white”). Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|snow whit}} Middle English snow whit, {{inh|en|ang|snāwhwīt}} Old English snāwhwīt, {{inh|en|gmw-pro|*snaiwhwīt}} Proto-West Germanic *snaiwhwīt, {{inh|en|gem-pro|*snaiwahwītaz}} Proto-Germanic *snaiwahwītaz, {{com|en|snow|white}} snow + white, {{cog|nl|sneeuwwit|t=snow-white}} Dutch sneeuwwit (“snow-white”), {{cog|de|schneeweiß|t=snow-white}} German schneeweiß (“snow-white”), {{cog|sv|snövit|t=snow-white}} Swedish snövit (“snow-white”) Head templates: {{en-noun}} snow-white (plural snow-whites)
  1. (ethnic slur, offensive, slang) A Caucasian person, especially a woman. Tags: ethnic, offensive, slang, slur Categories (topical): Whites Synonyms: snow white
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Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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          "ref": "1982 August 14, Mary Ann Peacott, Liz Nania, “BT's In Boston”, in Gay Community News, volume 10, number 5, page 12:",
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          "word": "백설"
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          "sense": "as white as snow",
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      "glosses": [
        "A Caucasian person, especially a woman."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "ethnic",
          "ethnic"
        ],
        [
          "slur",
          "slur"
        ],
        [
          "Caucasian",
          "Caucasian"
        ],
        [
          "person",
          "person"
        ],
        [
          "woman",
          "woman"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(ethnic slur, offensive, slang) A Caucasian person, especially a woman."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "ethnic",
        "offensive",
        "slang",
        "slur"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "audio": "En-au-snow-white.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/f/fa/En-au-snow-white.ogg/En-au-snow-white.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fa/En-au-snow-white.ogg"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "snow white"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "en:Snow White (disambiguation)"
  ],
  "word": "snow-white"
}

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