Glacier Definition

glāshər
glaciers
noun
A large mass of ice and snow that forms in areas where the rate of snowfall constantly exceeds the rate at which the snow melts: it moves slowly outward from the center of accumulation or down a mountain until it melts or breaks away.
Webster's New World
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Noun

Singular:
glacier
Plural:
glaciers

Origin of Glacier

  • French from Old French cold place from glace ice from Vulgar Latin glacia from Latin glaciēs gel- in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • Borrowing from French glacier, from Old French glace (“ice”), from Latin glacies (“ice”), from Proto-Indo-European *gel- (“cold”).

    From Wiktionary

Glacier Sentence Examples

  • About half a mile from the glacier the river turns S.E.

  • Most of the glaciers terminate at an altitude of 14,800-14,900 feet, but the small Cesar glacier, drained to the Hausberg valley, reaches to 14,450.

  • The whole interior of Greenland is completely covered by the so-called inland ice, an enormous glacier forming a regular shield-shaped expanse of snow and glacier ice, and burying all valleys and mountains far below its surface.

  • The Tasman glacier is 18 m.

  • Another single glacier has been surveyed 36 m.

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Words Starting With

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