Copyright © Philip M. Parker, INSEAD. Terms of Use.
Definition: Snowbound |
SnowboundAdjective1. Confined or shut in by heavy snow. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Crosswords: Snowbound |
| Specialty definitions using "snowbound": Snow. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | They got snowbound one winter in the mountains. (The Shining; writing credit: Stanley Kubrick) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Snowbound (1948) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
Theater & Movies | |
Music |
|
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "Snowbound" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Snowbound" is used about 15 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 15 | 90,616 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
snowbound software | 8 |
snowbound | 8 |
snowbound whittier | 3 |
book snowbound | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "snowbound"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | i mbyllur me dëborë, i bllokuar nga dëbora. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | откъснат от снегове, заснежен (snow-capped), прекъснат от снегове. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | zapadlý snìhem (snow-bound). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | lumen peittämä (covered with snow). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | eingeschneit. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | coperto di neve, bloccato dalla neve. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | owboundsnay preso pela neve, bloqueado pela neve. (various references) заснеженный (snow-clad), занесенный снегом. (various references) zavejan snegom (snow-bound). (various references) insnöad (narrow minded). (various references) kardan mahsur kalmış. (various references) засніжений, затриманий сніговими заметами. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "snowbound" (pronounced snō"bou'nd) |
| 4 | -b ou' n d | earthbound, eastbound, hidebound, homebound, outbound, southbound, spellbound, westbound. |
| 3 | -ou' n d | background, battleground, campground, fairground, foreground, foxhound, greyhound, horehound, playground, runaround, turnaround, underground. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-d-n-n-o-o-s-u-w" | |
-2 letters: sundown. | |
-3 letters: bounds, dobson, nodous, sunbow, swound, unsown, wounds. | |
-4 letters: bonds, bonus, boons, boson, bosun, bound, bunds, bunns, downs, nodus, noons, nouns, snood, sound, swoon, swoun, unwon, woods, wound. | |
-5 letters: bods, bond, boon, boos, bows, buds, bund, bunn, buns, dons, down, dows, dubs, duns, duos, nobs, nods, noon, noun, nous, nows, nubs, nuns, onus. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 6E 6F 77 62 6F 75 6E 64 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
|
| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
|
| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
|
| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
|
Morse Code (1836) (references)... -. --- .--. -... --- ..- -. -.. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
|
Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01101110 01101111 01110111 01100010 01101111 01110101 01101110 01100100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S n o w b o u n d |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 006E 006F 0077 0062 006F 0075 006E 0064 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
|
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)538081896881878070 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Modern 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Usage Frequency 6. Expressions: Internet 7. Translations: Modern 8. Rhymes | 9. Anagrams 10. Orthography 11. Bibliography |
Copyright © Philip M. Parker, INSEAD. Terms of Use.
