snow queen
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.45 in modern English
21
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
1
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
A female fairy tale character with magical power over snow and ice.
Example Sentences
- "The fur and the cap, which were made entirely of snow, fell off, and he saw a lady, tall and white, it was the Snow Queen."
- "Daphne wanted to tell her that a Snow Queen can know nothing of love, only of destruction, but she remained silent, just looked away."
- "Tom announces that he doesn't believe in such a thing as a Snow Queen."
- "You have a lot of people of color here who have problems with their own racial identity. What we in the Black homosexual community term "snow queens." There's lots of them here who will not even speak to you, who will look right through you like you don't even exist, and consider association with whites as some kind of elevation of their status, in life and the community."
Etymology
A literal translation into English from the original Danish Sneedronningen, from snee (“snow”, an older spelling of sne) + dronning (“queen”) + -en (suffixed definite article) from a fairy tale first published in 1845 by Hans Christian Andersen, based on the struggle between good and evil as experienced by a little boy and girl, Kai and Gerda.
Usage
Inflected Forms
the Snow Queen (canonical)
snow queens (plural)