snowman

«snowman» in Mova's school dictionary: a figure of a person made of snow, usually two or three… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a snowman, snowmen)

meaning for a pupil

A snowman is a figure of a person made of snow, usually two or three big snowballs stacked up, with a face of stones or coal and a carrot nose. tree →

sense in the lessons

In everyday winter life children build snowmen; in stories like «The Snowman» or Olaf in «Frozen» a snowman comes alive. In science, a snowman melts when the temperature rises above 0 °C. Phrases: «build a snowman», «make a snowman», «the snowman melted».

examples

• We built a snowman in the garden. tree →
• Our snowman has a carrot for a nose. tree →
• The snowman melted when the sun came out. tree →
• Roll a big snowball for the snowman's body. tree →
• Olaf is a funny snowman in «Frozen». tree →
• Put a hat and scarf on the snowman. tree →

note

Irregular plural: snowman → snowmen. One word. Water freezes and snow stays at 0 °C or below; above that, the snowman slowly melts.

In the corpora

• Il neige means "It's snowing"; la neige is snow and un bonhomme de neige is a snowman.
• Insulation slows heat flow in both directions, so a coat wrapped round a snowman makes it last longer.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «snowman» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.