snow cannon

English

snow cannon (sense 1)

Pronunciation

• enPR: snō′ kăn′ən
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˌsnəʊ̯ ˈkæn.ən/, /ˌsnəʊ̯ ˈkan.ən/
• (General American, Canada) IPA^(key): /ˌsnoʊ̯ ˈkæn.ən/

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• (Australian) IPA^(key): /ˌsnəʉ̯ ˈkæn.ən/, /ˌsnɐʉ̯ ˈkæn.ən/
• (New Zealand) IPA^(key): /ˌsnɐʉ̯ ˈkɛn.ən/
• (Scotland) IPA^(key): /ˌsno ˈkan.ən/, /ˌsno ˈkan.ʌn/
• (India) IPA^(key): (toe–tow merger) /ˌsnoː ˈka(ː)n.on/; (without the toe–tow merger) /ˌsnɔ(ː)w ˈka(ː)n.on/, /ˌsnoː(w) ˈka(ː)n.on/
• Hyphenation: snow can‧non

Noun

snow cannon (plural snow cannons)

2. (skiing) A machine that spurts out snow over pistes where there is little or no snow cover.

Translations

machine that spurts out snow over pistes

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 雪炮 (xuěpào)

• Danish: snekanon c
• Esperanto: neĝopafilego
• Finnish: lumitykki (fi)
• French: canon à neige (fr) m
• German: Beschneiungsanlage (de) f, Schneekanone (de) f
• Hungarian: hóágyú (hu)
• Ido: please add this translation if you can
• Interlingua: please add this translation if you can
• Italian: cannóne spàranéve m, cannóne per innevaménto artificiàle m
• Polish: armatka śnieżna f
• Portuguese: canhão de neve m
• Spanish: cañón de nieve m
• Swedish: snökanon (sv) c
• Volapük: please add this translation if you can

Further reading

• “snow cannon”, in Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
• “snow cannon, n.”, in Collins English Dictionary, accessed 18 May 2026.
• “snow cannon”, in TheFreeDictionary.com, Huntingdon Valley, Pa.: Farlex, Inc., 2003–2026, retrieved 18 May 2026