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Snowdon
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English
Etymology
From en ang snāw snow + ang dūn hill.
Pronunciation
en /ˈsnəʊ.dən/ RP
en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-Snowdon.wav Southern England
en /ˈsnoʊ.dən/ GA
en əʊdən 2
Proper noun
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A placename:
en The highest <<mountain>> in <<cc/Wales>> at 1,085 metres (3560 feet) high, in the <<co:pref/Gwynedd>> OS grid ref SH6054. en Places in Gwynedd, Wales
en hill 495 metres high (1625 feet), on x/Dartmoor dist/South Hams co/Devon cc/England OS grid ref SX6668.
en neighbourhood city/Montreal p/Quebec c/Canada in the borough of Côte-des-Neiges–Notre-Dame-de-Grâce, named after James Snowdon.
en English habitational toponymy < Old English for someone who lived in any of these places.
Derived terms
en Snowdonia Snowden
Translations
Welsh mountain
Breton: br Gouezva f
Chinese:
Mandarin: cmn 斯諾登 Sīnuòdēng
Japanese: ja スノードン Sunōdon
Korean: ko 스노든
Lithuanian: lt Snoudonas m
Macedonian: mk Сноудон m
Marathi: mr स्नोडन
Russian: ru Сно́удон m
Ukrainian: uk Сноудон m
Welsh: cy yr Wyddfa f
See also
en Snowdown