English
A snowdrift.
Etymology
snow drift
Noun
snowdrift (plural snowdrifts
A bank of snow accumulated by the wind .
1962 Modern Railways , page 255 :In winter the line between Barnard Castle and Kirkby Stephen was regularly blocked by snowdrifts ; in 1947, for instance, it was closed for eight weeks and only three weeks before it was finally closed no trains were able to use it for three days because of thick snow.
Synonym: snowbank
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Derived terms
Translations
bank of snow
Azerbaijani: kürtük
Bashkir: көрт ( kört )
Bulgarian: преспа (bg) f ( prespa )
Catalan: congesta (ca) f pila de neu f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 雪堆 (zh) ( xuěduī )
Czech: sněhová závěj f
Danish: snefane snedrive
Dutch: sneeuwbank (nl) f sneeuwduin f sneeuwdrift f
Erzya: шушмо ( šušmo )
Esperanto: neĝamaso
Faroese: kavafonn f
Finnish: lumikinos (fi) , luminietos (fi)
French: congère (fr) f
Georgian: ნამქერი ( namkeri )
German: Schneewehe (de) f Schneeverwehung f
Greek: χιονοστιβάδα (el) f ( chionostiváda )
Greenlandic: apusineq aputip qingartagaa
Hawaiian: ʻapukāka
Hungarian: hófúvás (hu) , hókupac (hu) , hótorlasz (hu) , hóbucka (hu)
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Ido: niv-amaso (io)
Irish: ráth sneachta m
Italian: cumulo di neve m
Kazakh: күртік ( kürtık ) , омбы ( omby )
Mingrelian: ლანქერი ( lankeri ) , ლენქერი ( lenkeri )
Norwegian:
Bokmål: snøfonn m or f snødrive m or f
Nynorsk: snøfonn f snødrive f
Polish: zaspa (pl) f zaspa śnieżna f
Portuguese: acúmulo de neve m
Romanian: troian (ro) n nămete (ro) m
Russian: сугро́б (ru) m ( sugrób )
Svan: ნენქერ ( nenker )
Swedish: snödriva (sv) c snövall (sv) c
Tofa: һөртүк
Ukrainian: заме́т m ( zamét )
Walloon: consire (wa) f sconsire (wa) f banc d' nive (wa) m
Welsh: lluwchfa f
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