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Snow White

/snəʊ waɪt/ · name

Meaning

  1. 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.
  2. Alternative form of snow-white.
  3. The main character in that story.
  4. 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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