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Definition of "glacier" []

  • A huge mass of ice slowly flowing over a land mass, formed from compacted snow in an area where snow accumulation exceeds melting and sublimation. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "glacier" in a sentence
  • "A big risk of doing that is what they call glacier dust, which can make you quite sick, almost to same effects as like food poisoning."
  • "Hence the name glacier, which is derived from the Latin, glacies; French, glace, glacier."
  • "Satellite and ice measurements show the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets are losing mass at an increasing rate, and mountain glacier melting is accelerating;"