glacier

CEFRB2

/ˈɡlæs.jə/

noun

Türkçe translations

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In plain English

  1. 01

    noun

    A huge mass of slow-moving ice on land.

  2. 02

    noun

    Extra detail

    An area of a mountain where snow is present year-round.

Examples

  • It is dangerous to walk on a calving glacier.

  • The glacier moves but by inches.

At a glance

Sits at B2 on the CEFR scale

Senses
4
Parts of speech
1

Also pronounced

  • /ˈɡleɪ.ʃɚ/
  • /ˈɡleɪs.jə/

Deep Dive

noun

Extra meanings

  1. Something that moves very slowly

  2. A large body of ice which flows under its own mass, usually downhill.

More examples

In context

  • The queue in the pharmacy was a glacier.

  • They warned that the effects of glacier melting on water resources are becoming “increasingly serious” for China.

  • You can ski down the glacier in both the winter and the summer.

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Origin

noun

Borrowed from French glacier, from Franco-Provençal gllaciér, from Vulgar Latin *glaciārium, a derivative of Latin glaciēs (“ice”), of uncertain origin. First attested in English in 1744 per the OED.