Snowdon

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Snowdon

/ˈsnəʊ.dən/ UK
/ˈsnoʊ.dən/ US

Rhymes with -əʊdən

Where it comes from

From Old English snāw (“snow”) + dūn (“hill”).

proper noun Snowdons

countable, uncountable The highest mountain in Wales at 1,085 metres (3560 feet) high, in the county of Gwynedd (OS grid ref SH6054).
countable, uncountable A hill 495 metres high (1625 feet), on Dartmoor, South Hams district, Devon, England (OS grid ref SX6668).
countable, uncountable A neighbourhood of Montreal, Quebec, Canada, in the borough of Côte-des-Neiges–Notre-Dame-de-Grâce, named after James Snowdon.
countable, uncountable An English habitational surname from toponymy [in turn from Old English] for someone who lived in any of these places.

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name Welsh mountain

한국어	스노든 seunodeun
日本語	スノードン Sunōdon
中文	斯諾登 /斯诺登 Sīnuòdēng
Русский	Сно́удон Snóudon

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@misc{snowdon_2026,
  title = {Snowdon},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/snowdon},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}