# snowing

Pronunciation: say "SNOH-ing" US /ˈsnoʊɪŋ/, UK /ˈsnəʊɪŋ/

## Verb

1. Present participle of snow. — present participle and gerund of snow
   - Simple: Present participle of snow. Use this form for snow that is falling right now.
   - _By midnight it was snowing so heavily that the roads vanished._
   - _It kept snowing throughout the afternoon, blanketing the orchard._

## Noun

2. An occasion when snow falls from the sky onto the ground.
   - Simple: An amount of snow that falls from the sky.
   - _An early snowing left a thin layer across the valley floor._
   - _The heavy snowing closed the mountain pass for two full days._

## Origin

This is formed from the verb "snow."

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/snowing (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).