Difference between Snowstorm and Blizzard

Snowstorm

Part of speech: noun

Definition: Bad weather involving blowing winds and snow, or blowing winds and heavy snowfall amount.

Blizzard

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To fall in windy conditions

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A severe snowstorm, especially with strong winds and greatly reduced visibility.A large amount of paperwork.A large number of similar things, such as a blizzard of political ads.

Example sentence: I hate it when you see in films people with their anoraks flapping open in a blizzard. They'd be dead in a couple of minutes. It's got to be real. It's got to work.