glacier.
A large body of ice which flows under its own mass, usually downhill.
Meaning & usage
A large body of ice which flows under its own mass, usually downhill.
They warned that the effects of glacier melting on water resources are becoming “increasingly serious” for China.
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.
Where this word comes from
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.
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