[uncountable] a mixture of rain and snow The rain was turning to sleet. The wind was blowing hard and bringing with it sleet. Wordfindersnowavalanche, blizzard, drift, flurry, hail, icicle, sleet, slush, snow, thaw Oxford Collocations DictionarySleet is used before these nouns: shower See full entry See related entries: Rain, Snow and ice Word OriginMiddle English: of Germanic origin; probably related to Middle Low German slōten (plural) ‘hail’ and German Schlosse ‘hailstone’.
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