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snow-covered

snow-covered

12 2.6
Covered with snow, like trees or streets
  • adjective
  • /snoʊ ˈkʌvərd/
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  • After the storm, the snow-covered rooftops made the whole town look like a winter wonderland.
  • snow-covered peaks
  • snow-covered mountains
  • snow-covered area

But if you look past that, you can see the snow covered mountains right now, which is really beautiful.

Examples

  • On one side of the horizon was a snow-covered winter world where everything was white.

    Academic text (1994)
  • Miss Squirrel darted along the snow-covered trail toward town, clutching an armload of packages.

    Fiction book (1998)
  • But if you look past that, you can see the snow covered mountains right now, which is really beautiful.

  • Looking outside we have snow covered mountains and we are in a Japanese style room.

  • I was looking at it from the window of an inn, viewing it across snow-covered fields.

    Fiction book (1996)
  • Within a few minutes, we were over the snow-covered peaks of the Brabazon Range.

    Academic text (1990)
  • One of the little children followed after them along the snow-covered road, rutted with wagon tracks.

    Fiction book (1992)
  • The snow-covered peaks, the rolling valleys, the beautiful rivers...

  • Kilimanjaro is a snow-covered mountain 19,710 feet high, said to be the highest mountain in Africa.

  • Smoke curls up from the chimney of a snow-covered cottage in a clearing of a snow-covered pine forest.

    Fiction book (1993)

Synonyms

snowy
vssnow-covered
38 1.0

Covered with snow on the ground and on trees

is used for general full coverage by a layer of snow
snow-capped
vssnow-covered
5 2.8

A mountain or hill with its top covered in snow

is broader and applies to any surface covered with a layer of snow
snow-clad
vssnow-covered
3.8

Covered with snow, like roofs or mountain peaks in winter

is the plain expression meaning covered with a layer of snow

Antonyms

217 2.2

Not covered or protected, showing the plain surface

How Snowy

snow-covered
12 2.6
snow-capped
5 2.8
bare
217 2.2

Surface Forms

snow-covered positive

Morphology

snow-covered = snow + covered (transparent) = snow + cover + ed

The adjective is a straightforward compound of 'snow' and 'covered', meaning 'covered with snow'.

Etymology

Snow-covered is made of snow and covered, where covered means 'to put something over'. So it literally means 'put over with snow', like a white blanket on the ground.