BLIZZARD

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does blizzard mean? 

• BLIZZARD (noun)
  The noun BLIZZARD has 2 senses:

1. a storm with widespread snowfall accompanied by strong winds

2. a series of unexpected and unpleasant occurrences

  Familiarity information: BLIZZARD used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BLIZZARD (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A storm with widespread snowfall accompanied by strong winds

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural phenomena

Synonyms:

blizzard; snowstorm

Hypernyms ("blizzard" is a kind of...):

storm; violent storm (a violent weather condition with winds 64-72 knots (11 on the Beaufort scale) and precipitation and thunder and lightning)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A series of unexpected and unpleasant occurrences

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

blizzard; rash

Context example:

a blizzard of lawsuits

Hypernyms ("blizzard" is a kind of...):

series (similar things placed in order or happening one after another)

 Context examples 

We are getting near Bering Sea, and there are storms and blizzards. The going is hard.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

This December, your friends may have candy canes dancing in their heads now that the holiday season is upon us, but not you—you will have to hit the ground running, for assignments will tumble toward you rapidly like snowflakes in a blizzard.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

They went across divides in summer blizzards, shivered under the midnight sun on naked mountains between the timber line and the eternal snows, dropped into summer valleys amid swarming gnats and flies, and in the shadows of glaciers picked strawberries and flowers as ripe and fair as any the Southland could boast.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)