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Word entry · 7 letters

glacier

Best crossword clue

"Slow-moving river of ice"

7 letters · collected on this word page

7 lettersPronunciation /ˈɡlæs.jə/Part of speech nounSorted acegilrStarts with GEnds with R2 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. 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

01Slow-moving river of ice7 letters
02Slow-moving ice mass7 letters

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