white Christmas
Definitions
A Christmas Day or Christmas Eve in which there is snowfall or ground covered with snow.
Equivalents
5 more languages
Examples
““It′s like⟳ frozen thistle-down!” she cried. “I hope⟳ it will snow⟳ all day and all night until everything is covered. I never saw⟳ a white Christmas.””
“In New York City 10,000 men struggled to clear away the heavy snow⟳ which promised New Yorkers their first white Christmas in 15 years,[…].”
“At Environment Canada, senior climatologist David Phillips′ standard for a white Christmas calls for at least two centimeters of snow⟳ on the ground at 7 a.m. . . . “In England, if a weather guy sees a snowflake, they call⟳ it a white Christmas.””
CEFR level
B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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