glacier
Plural: glaciers
Noun
- A slowly moving mass of ice formed from accumulated snow.
- a slowly moving mass of ice
- A large body of ice which flows under its own mass, usually downhill.
- An area of a mountain where snow is present year-round.
Examples
- The Words With Friends game moved at a glacier’s pace, much to his impatience.
- 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.
Origin / Etymology
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.
Scrabble Score: 10
glacier: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordglacier: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
glacier: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary
Words With Friends Score: 13
glacier: valid Words With Friends Word