Definitions
A large, slow-moving mass of ice.
Word origin
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.
Used in a sentence
“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.”
“The queue in the pharmacy was a glacier.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer2 curated clues
01“Slow-moving river of ice”7 letters
02“Slow-moving ice mass”7 letters
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