SNOW-WHITE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does snow-white mean? 

• SNOW-WHITE (adjective)
  The adjective SNOW-WHITE has 1 sense:

1. of the white color of snow

  Familiarity information: SNOW-WHITE used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SNOW-WHITE (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Of the white color of snow

Synonyms:

snow-white; snowy

Similar:

achromatic; neutral (having no hue)

 Context examples 

Snow-white was married to him, and Rose-red to his brother, and they divided between them the great treasure which the dwarf had gathered together in his cave.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

A whitecap foamed above it and broke across in a snow-white smother.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

One of them was a big, snow-white fellow from Spitzbergen who had been brought away by a whaling captain, and who had later accompanied a Geological Survey into the Barrens.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

Fuzzy little black-velvet monkeys, with snow-white teeth and gleaming, mocking eyes, chattered at us as we passed.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

His plumed helmet was carried behind him by his body-squire, and his head was covered by a small purple cap, from under which his snow-white hair curled downwards to his shoulders.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

If we chose to roll upon our right sides, the whole weald lay in front of us, with the North Downs curving away in olive-green folds, with here and there the snow-white rift of a chalk-pit; if we turned upon our left, we overlooked the huge blue stretch of the Channel.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

At the same instant Martin sprang for him, clutching him by the throat with one hand in such fashion that Mr. Ends' snow-white beard, still maintaining its immaculate trimness, pointed ceilingward at an angle of forty-five degrees.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

I remember how the solemn feeling with which at length I turned my eyes away, yielded to the sensation of gratitude and rest which the sight of the white-curtained bed—and how much more the lying softly down upon it, nestling in the snow-white sheets!—inspired.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Snow-white and Rose-red kept their mother’s little cottage so neat that it was a pleasure to look inside it.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

Time and time again he tried for the snow-white throat, where life bubbled near to the surface, and each time and every time Spitz slashed him and got away.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)