Glacier

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. 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.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A large body of ice which flows under its own mass, usually downhill.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. 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.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. The form in which the snow, falling on the higher parts of those mountain-ranges which are above the snow-line, finds its way down into the valleys.
  • n. A vessel for holding ice and cooling wine.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a slowly moving mass of ice
  • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    ice mass   
    Form
    glaciation    glacial   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    crag    canyon    cliff    crater    valley    lake    volcano    waterfall    peak    plateau