snowfall

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   an occasion or period during which snow falls

   The first snowfall of winter began shortly after midnight.

2. 2
   noun

   the amount of snow that falls in a particular place and period

   The mountain recorded a snowfall of thirty centimeters overnight.

A transparent English compound of snow + fall, using fall in its noun sense of something descending or the amount that descends. The word can denote either an event of falling snow or the quantity deposited.

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