Snowdon

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

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -əʊdən

Snowdon (countable and uncountable, plural Snowdons)

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

• Snowdown