Definition of Glacier

Glacier

An immense field or stream of ice, formed in the region of perpetual snow, and moving slowly down a mountain slope or valley, as in the Alps, or over an extended area, as in Greenland.

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Glacier Quotations

Glaciers are almost gone from Glacier National Park.
Donella Meadows

Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier.
Barbara Kingsolver

The glacier was God's great plough set at work ages ago to grind, furrow, and knead over, as it were, the surface of the earth.
Louis Agassiz

But with the slow menace of a glacier, depression came on. No one had any measure of its progress; no one had any plan for stopping it. Everyone tried to get out of its way.
Frances Perkins

Before the reader turns his back upon the Grand Basin once for all, I should like to put a name upon the glacier it contains - since it is the fashion to name glaciers.
Hudson Stuck

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Glacier Translations

glacier in Dutch is gletsjer
glacier in French is glacier
glacier in German is Gletscher
glacier in Hungarian is gleccser
glacier in Italian is ghiacciaio
glacier in Norwegian is isbre
glacier in Portuguese is geleira
glacier in Spanish is glaciar

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