Snow White
/snəʊ waɪt/ · name
Meaning
- A fairy tale, the best-known version of Schneewittchen collected by the Brothers Grimm, in which a beautiful young girl is targeted by a jealous queen and tended by dwarfs.
- Alternative form of snow-white.
- The main character in that story.
- A fictional character in the fairy tale Snow-White and Rose-Red, from Schneeweißchen und Rosenrot collected by the Brothers Grimm.
Etymology / origin
Calque of German Schneewittchen (literally “white as snow”).
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