glacier

glacier
noun Etymology: French, from Middle French dialect (Franco-Provençal), from glace ice, from Latin glacies; akin to Latin gelu frost — more at cold Date: 1744 a large body of ice moving slowly down a slope or valley or spreading outward on a land surface

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  • Glacier — Gla cier, n. [F. glacier, fr. glace ice, L. glacies.] An immense field or stream of ice, formed in the region of perpetual snow, and moving slowly down a mountain slope or valley, as in the Alps, or over an extended area, as in Greenland. [1913… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

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  • glacier — 1744, from Fr. glacier, from Savoy dialect glacière moving mass of ice, from O.Fr. glace ice, from V.L. glacia (Cf. O.Prov. glassa, It. ghiaccia), from L. glacies (see GLACIAL (Cf. glacial)) …   Etymology dictionary

  • Glacier — (fr., spr. Glasiëh), Eisberg, Gletscher …   Pierer's Universal-Lexikon

  • Glacier — (franz., spr. glaßjĕ), Eishändler; Gletscher, Eisberg; Glacière, Eiskeller, Eisgrube …   Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon

  • Glacier — (frz., spr. ßĭeh), Eisberg, Gletscher; Glacière (spr. ßĭähr), Eiskeller; glacieren (spr. glaß ), mit einer glatten, glänzenden Fläche überziehen …   Kleines Konversations-Lexikon

  • glacier — [n] mountain of ice, snow berg, floe, glacial mass, iceberg, icecap, ice field, ice floe, snow slide; concept 509 …   New thesaurus

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