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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
snowbound
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
Snowbound travelers were stuck at the Denver airport for almost 24 hours this week.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ And even beyond would be snowbound, perhaps right as far as the sea.
▪ Buckmaster sat beside him, staring at the bleak snowbound slopes of the moor.
▪ Even snowbound consumers found ways to spend.
▪ It developed that they were not snowbound after all.
▪ My wife has been snowbound back East for the past several days.
▪ Once they were snowbound she put the task off again and it was not until early March that the thaw began.
▪ She glanced at his strong profile, staring ahead at the snowbound road.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
snowbound

confined \confined\ adj.

  1. having movement restricted to within a certain area; -- usually a building. Opposite of unconfined.

    Note: [Narrower terms: claustrophobic; close, confining; homebound, housebound, shut-in; in childbed(prenominal); pent, shut up(predicate); snowbound; weather-bound; stormbound, storm-bound]

  2. deprived of liberty; especially placed under arrest or restraint.

  3. having movement restricted to within an enclosed outdoor area; -- of animals.

    Syn: fenced in, penned.

  4. (Med.) not invading healthy tissue.

  5. held prisoner.

    Syn: captive, imprisoned, jailed.

  6. having movement or progress restricted to a certain area; as, an outbreak of the plague confined to one quarter of the city; wildfires confined to within the canyon.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
snowbound

1814, from snow (n.) + bound (adj.1).

Wiktionary
snowbound

a. Unable to move, because of heavy snow.

WordNet
snowbound

adj. confined or shut in by heavy snow

Wikipedia
Snowbound (song)

"Snowbound" is the fourth track from Donald Fagen's second solo album Kamakiriad.

Snowbound (2001 film)

Snowbound is a thriller film released in 2001. The film stars Erika Eleniak, Monika Schnarre, and Peter Dobson.

Snowbound (Fourplay album)

Snowbound is the fifth studio album by Fourplay, released in 1999. It is a recording of Christmas songs.

Snowbound (1948 film)

Snowbound is a 1948 British thriller film directed by David MacDonald and starring Dennis Price, Stanley Holloway, Mila Parély, and Herbert Lom. A group of people search for treasure hidden by the Nazis in the Alps following the Second World War. It was based on the novel The Lonely Skier by Hammond Innes.

Snowbound (Sarah Vaughan album)

Snowbound is a 1963 studio album by Sarah Vaughan, arranged by Don Costa.

Snowbound (1927 film)

Snowbound is a 1927 silent film comedy produced and released by Tiffany Pictures and directed by Phil Goldstone. It stars Robert Agnew, Betty Blythe and Harold Goodwin.

It is preserved at the Library of Congress.

Usage examples of "snowbound".

Snowbound in a tavern at Hartford, Adams fell into conversation with another traveler who happened not to recognize him.

And Furvain, glancing for just a moment into his wine-bowl as though some poem might be lurking there, would draw a deep breath and instantaneously begin to recite a mock epic, in neatly balanced hexameter and the most elaborate of anapestic rhythms, about the desperate craving of a Pontifex for sausage made of steetmoy meat, and the sending of the laziest and most cowardly of the royal courtiers on a hunting expedition to the snowbound lair of that ferocious white-furred creature of northern Zimroel.

Finally the barges reached snowbound and windswept heathlands in which a few sheep-pens and juniper bushes projected themselves from sculpted snowdrifts like ruins.

Five days ago they had left Ice Trapper territory, traveling through ice storms and whiteouts, across black hackled ice and snowbound foothills, and in all that time she had seen nothing but certainty on his face.

Jack's mother Teresa, rest her poor soul, had needed a sunny place to recuperate after hid­ing out in the snowbound Megapod Reserve of British Colum­bia, and the island afforded a perfect refuge for the three of them.

He did so, supplying us with an ecological chain that includes plants, trees, grain, food beasts, and those that could be used in a variety of tasks, such as the sled dogs, curly-coats, moose, deer, the other small food and fur animals, birds, insects: all viable on this cold, snowbound planet.