snowdrift

See also: snow drift

English

A snowdrift.

snow +‎ drift

snowdrift (plural snowdrifts)

A bank of snow accumulated by the wind.
- 1962 April, D. Bertram, “Trans-Pennine Diversion”, in Modern Railways, page 255:
  In winter the line between Barnard Castle and Kirkby Stephen was regularly blocked by snowdrifts; in 1947, for instance, it was closed for eight weeks and only three weeks before it was finally closed no trains were able to use it for three days because of thick snow.
Synonym: snowbank

bank of snow

Azerbaijani: kürtük
Bashkir: көрт (kört)
Bulgarian: преспа (bg) f (prespa)
Catalan: congesta (ca) f, pila de neu f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 雪堆 (zh) (xuěduī)
Czech: sněhová závěj f
Danish: snefane, snedrive
Dutch: sneeuwbank (nl) f, sneeuwduin f, sneeuwdrift f
Erzya: шушмо (šušmo)
Esperanto: neĝamaso
Faroese: kavafonn f
Finnish: lumikinos (fi), luminietos (fi), {{|t+|fi|hanki}}
French: congère (fr) f
Georgian: ნამქერი (namkeri)
German: Schneewehe (de) f, Schneeverwehung f
Greek: χιονοστιβάδα (el) f (chionostiváda)
Greenlandic: apusineq, aputip qingartagaa
Hawaiian: ʻapukāka
Hungarian: hófúvás (hu), hókupac (hu), hótorlasz (hu), hóbucka (hu)
Icelandic: snjóskafli (is) m
Ido: niv-amaso (io)
Irish: ráth sneachta m
Italian: cumulo di neve m
Kazakh: күртік (kürtık), омбы (omby)
Livvi Karelian kivos (olo), hangi (olo)
Macedonian: пре́спа f (préspa), со́спа f (sóspa)
Mingrelian: ლანქერი (lankeri), ლენქერი (lenkeri)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: snøfonn m or f, snødrive m or f
Nynorsk: snøfonn f, snødrive f
Polish: zaspa (pl) f, zaspa śnieżna f
Portuguese: acúmulo de neve m
Romanian: troian (ro) n, nămete (ro) m
Russian: сугро́б (ru) m (sugrób)
Svan: ნენქერ (nenker)
Swedish: snödriva (sv) c, snövall (sv) c
Tofa: һөртүк
Ukrainian: заме́т m (zamét)
Walloon: consire (wa) f, sconsire (wa) f, banc d' nive (wa) m
Welsh: lluwchfa f