snow queen
- noun
- /snoʊ kwiːn/
- Offensive
:
reina del hielo
- Her icy demeanor earned her the nickname, snow queen.
Examples
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After her flawless routine, the press dubbed her the snow queen of the national championships.
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The main character, portrayed as a snow queen, barely showed any emotion throughout the play.
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She is known as the snow queen of the ice rink.
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The snow queen dazzled everyone with her performance.
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The main character, portrayed as a snow queen, dominated the ice with her cold elegance.
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After her flawless routine, the audience hailed her as the snow queen of the national championships.
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Her icy demeanor and exceptional skill on the ice earned her the title of snow queen.
Synonyms
3
8.5
A woman who seems cold and not open about her feelings
1
8.8
A woman who seems cold and shows little feeling
Antonyms
How Cold
Surface Forms
Morphology
snow + queen
The components 'snow' (associated with coldness) and 'queen' (a prominent woman) yield a plausible metaphorical interpretation of an emotionally cold or aloof woman, so a learner who knows the parts could plausibly infer that meaning. However, the figurative, evaluative sense and the specialized sense (e.g. a dominant skater) require cultural or contextual knowledge and are not fully predictable from the constituents alone, so the expression is only partially transparent.
Etymology
Snow queen paints a picture of a queen made of snow, beautiful but cold and distant. Because snow is cold and a queen is in charge, calling someone a snow queen suggests a woman who seems 'emotionally cold' or a 'top skater'.