glacier
A large body of ice which flows under its own mass, usually downhill.
Example
“They warned that the effects of glacier melting on water resources are becoming “increasingly serious” for China.”
Other meanings
An area of a mountain where snow is present year-round.
“You can ski down the glacier in both the winter and the summer.”
Something that moves very slowly
“The queue in the pharmacy was a glacier.”
A kind of
- ice mass
Kinds of glacier
- continental glacier
Related words
- continental glacier
- Doomsday Glacier
- glacier glasses
- glaciation
- glacier bird
- glacier buttercup
- Glacier County
- glacier cream
- glaciered
- Glaciergate
- glacierist
- glacierization
Word history
From Latin "glaciēs" (ice).
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “glacier” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.