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

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