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