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glaciers

glaciers is the plural of glacier.

Meaning of glacier

Noun

glacier (plural glaciers)

  1. A large body of ice which flows under its own mass, usually downhill.
    • They warned that the effects of glacier melting on water resources are becoming “increasingly serious” for China.
  2. An area of a mountain where snow is present year-round.
    • You can ski down the glacier in both the winter and the summer.
  3. (figuratively) Something that moves very slowly
    • The queue in the pharmacy was a glacier.

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Phrases with glaciers

Questions about glaciers

What is glaciers the plural of?
Glaciers is the plural of glacier.

Words near glaciers in the dictionary

  1. glacierization
  2. glacierizations
  3. glacierized
  4. glacierless
  5. glacierlike
  6. glaciers
  7. glacified
  8. glacifies
  9. glacifluvial
  10. glacify
  11. glacifying

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Adapted from Wiktionary: glaciers (page history and authors); glacier (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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