snowfalln.
/ˈsnəʊfɔːl/, U.S. /ˈsnoʊˌfɔl/, /ˈsnoʊˌfɑl/ 1. A fall of snow; a quantity of snow falling during a certain time. Also figurative.
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1821 W. C. Wells Ess. Dew (1866) 42 Immediately after a considerable snowfall had ceased.
1850 D. J. Browne Amer. Poultry Yard 149 During melting snow-falls, turkeys will travel very great distances.
1884 Manch. Examiner 11 Oct. 4/6 In various parts of the country..there was a rather heavy snowfall.
1964 Oceanogr. & Marine Biol. 2 31 In recent years there has been a fundamental change in our picture of the deep-sea floor; previously conditions were thought to be essentially ‘static’, with negligible currents and the only variation with time being the steady ‘snowfall’ of sediment to the sea bed.
1969 Mrs. L. B. Johnson Diary 10 Jan. in White House Diary (1970) 762 Dinner became a very snowfall of menu cards being passed around the tables for autographs.
2. The amount of snow falling at a particular place.
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the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > precipitation or atmospheric moisture > snow > [noun] > a fall of snow > amount falling at a particular place
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1875 J. Croll Climate & Time 382 The fact..proves that the snowfall must be great.
1889 G. F. Wright Ice Age N. Amer. 13 There is abundance of snow-fall.
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