Snowdon

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From Old English snaw+dun, Literally, snow hill.

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Snowdon (countable and uncountable, plural Snowdons)

  1. A placename:
    1. The highest mountain in Wales at 1,085 metres high, in the county of Gwynedd (OS grid ref SH6054).
    2. A hill 495 metres high, 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.

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