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Synonyms for blizzards

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

Définition of blizzards

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 only thing aginst that country up there is the blizzards.
  • Extract from : « Hidden Water » by Dane Coolidge
  • It was something to look forward to when the blizzards shut us off from the world.
  • Extract from : « Land of the Burnt Thigh » by Edith Eudora Kohl
  • Blizzards, snow-storms, had been responsible for many such delays.
  • Extract from : « Tongues of Conscience » by Robert Smythe Hichens
  • Blizzards were there, the perpetual blizzards of Arctic peaks.
  • Extract from : « The Purple Flame » by Roy J. Snell
  • At the other end of the scale the district is not exempt from blizzards.
  • Extract from : « The Cradle of Mankind » by W.A. Wigram
  • Gerald, Betty, and Billy were too accustomed to blizzards to mind their fury.
  • Extract from : « Brother Billy » by Frances Maragret Fox
  • The letters were a strange medley of grasshoppers, blizzards, and Indians.
  • Extract from : « Langford of the Three Bars » by Kate Boyles
  • It is those squalls or blizzards, Jack, that are the real danger before us.
  • Extract from : « Among the Esquimaux » by Edward S. Ellis
  • We are getting near Bering Sea, and there are storms and blizzards.
  • Extract from : « Love of Life » by Jack London
  • It takes a regular blizzard to do that, and we don't often get blizzards here.
  • Extract from : « The Curlytops Snowed In » by Howard R. Garis

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