Did you know?
The earliest recorded appearance of the word blizzard meaning “a severe snowstorm” was in the April 23, 1870 issue of a newspaper published in Estherville, Iowa. Blizzard shows up again during the following years in several newspapers in Iowa and neighboring states, and by 1888, when a snowstorm paralyzed the Eastern seaboard, the word was well-known nationally. However, in other senses, the word blizzard existed earlier. Davy Crockett, for instance, used it twice in the 1830s, once to mean a rifle blast and once to mean for a blast of words. All of these uses seem related, but the ultimate origin of the word is still unclear.
Examples of blizzard in a Sentence
Daniel R. Depetris, Newsweek, 12 Jan. 2025
Friday’s fresh rounds of snow flurries caused many more school districts in the Kansas City metro area to extend their closures into Friday, giving many students and staff a full week off of in-person instruction following the blizzard that swept through the area last weekend.
—The Kansas City Star Staff, Kansas City Star, 10 Jan. 2025
Beginning in 1992, the Ontological-Hysteric occupied an upper chamber of the beautiful St. Mark’s Church in-the-Bowery, and Foreman advertised his yearly shows there with blizzards of black-and-white posters, which were wheat-pasted all over the Village every winter.
—Helen Shaw, The New Yorker, 9 Jan. 2025
The comedy-drama starred Rabe opposite Vanessa Hudgens, and followed the lives of residents in the fictional town of Owl, North Dakota during a whiteout blizzard.
—Luke Chinman, People.com, 7 Jan. 2025
See all Example Sentences for blizzard 
Articles Related to blizzard
Dictionary Entries Near blizzard
Cite this Entry
“Blizzard.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/blizzard. Accessed 15 Jan. 2025.
Copy CitationKids Definition
blizzard
noun
Share