snow globe

noun

: a sphere usually made of glass containing a miniature scene and flakes suspended in a clear liquid that give the appearance of snow falling onto the scene when the sphere is shaken

At the gift shop around the corner, you can buy giant panda oven mitts, hand towels, snow globes, decorative plates and change purses, among many other items.

—David Rowell

Examples of snow globe in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

The theater then gets sucked into a vortex and turns into a snow globe. —Mark Kennedy, Fortune, 23 May 2026

Technically, that wasn’t the very last image — the wormhole sucked up the whole theater, spit out a snow globe, and Benny, Colbert’s pet dog, sniffed the souvenir before being ushered onward by his owner — but when the lights went out on Broadway, that was that. —Ben Travers, IndieWire, 22 May 2026

Wright imagined it as a snow globe, a world within a world. —Eric Boodman, Vulture, 25 Mar. 2026

Kimberley Alpine Resort is surrounded by jagged peaks, and its car-free downtown feels like a snow globe, complete with a quaint look and quiet atmosphere. —Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 17 Feb. 2026

Word History

First Known Use

1926, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for snow globe

• bathrobe
• earlobe
• microbe
• wardrobe
• jobe
• lobe
• probe
• robe
• strobe
• microprobe