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Synonyms for blizzard

Grammar : Noun
Spell : bliz-erd
Phonetic Transcription : ˈblɪz ərd

Définition of blizzard

Origin :
  • "strong, sustained snowstorm," 1859, origin obscure (perhaps somehow connected with blaze (n.1)); it came into general use in the U.S. in this sense the hard winter 1880-81. OED says it probably is "more or less onomatopÅ“ic," and adds "there is nothing to indicate a French origin." Before that it typically meant "violent blow," also "hail of gunfire" in American English from 1829, and blizz "violent rainstorm" is attested from 1770. The winter storm sense perhaps is originally a colloquial figurative use in the Upper Midwest of the U.S.
  • noun snow storm
Example sentences :
  • The blizzard had now subsided, and the stars shone overhead.
  • Extract from : « Murder Point » by Coningsby Dawson
  • You ain't been swallowed up in no blizzard, be you, comin' into town?
  • Extract from : « Faro Nell and Her Friends » by Alfred Henry Lewis
  • He did not relish the idea of a sixty or seventy mile drive in the blizzard.
  • Extract from : « Astounding Stories of Super-Science, August 1930 » by Various
  • I wonder if he slept while I was struggling with the blizzard in the streets.
  • Extract from : « Under Western Eyes » by Joseph Conrad
  • It would have been easy to let him get away and be lost in some night blizzard in the wilderness.
  • Extract from : « Policing the Plains » by R.G. MacBeth
  • More than once he had hoped the insensate fury of the blizzard might abate.
  • Extract from : « Nan of Music Mountain » by Frank H. Spearman
  • Farewell, then, to Chinik, the home of the north wind and blizzard.
  • Extract from : « A Woman who went to Alaska » by May Kellogg Sullivan
  • After all, what an amenable, unexacting sort of thing a blizzard was!
  • Extract from : « Peak and Prairie » by Anna Fuller
  • It set in to snow, and by night there was what a western man we've got calls a 'blizzard.'
  • Extract from : « The Long Roll » by Mary Johnston
  • Some of his men undoubtedly escaped, made off into the blizzard.
  • Extract from : « Beyond the Vanishing Point » by Raymond King Cummings

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