Noun: glacier
| Singular | glacier |
| Plural | glaciers |
Sample Sentences
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They warned that the effects of glacier melting on water resources are becoming “increasingly serious” for China.
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You can ski down the glacier in both the winter and the summer.
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The queue in the pharmacy was a glacier.
Nouns inflected like glacier
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
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. See: French Nouns '
glacier', Latin Nouns '
glaciēs'.