The glacier moves but by inches.
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Glacier
//ˈɡlæs.jə//
Synonyms for "glacier" (48 found)
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Closest matches (10)
Strong matches (14)
Related words (24)
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14 entriesTranslations
140 translations across 103 languages.
Afrikaans
1 entries- gletser noun (a large body of ice which flows under its own mass, usually downhill)
Albanian
1 entries- akullnajë noun (a large body of ice which flows under its own mass, usually downhill)
Arabic
2 entries- مَثْلَجَة noun (a large body of ice which flows under its own mass, usually downhill)
- مَجْلَدَة noun (a large body of ice which flows under its own mass, usually downhill)
Armenian
1 entries- սառցադաշտ noun (a large body of ice which flows under its own mass, usually downhill)
Azerbaijani
1 entries- buzlaq noun (a large body of ice which flows under its own mass, usually downhill)
Basque
1 entries- glaziar noun (a large body of ice which flows under its own mass, usually downhill)
Bavarian German
1 entries- gletscha noun (a large body of ice which flows under its own mass, usually downhill)
Belarusian
1 entries- ледаві́к noun (a large body of ice which flows under its own mass, usually downhill)
Bengali
1 entries- হিমবাহ noun (a large body of ice which flows under its own mass, usually downhill)
Breton
1 entries- skorneg noun (a large body of ice which flows under its own mass, usually downhill)
Bulgarian
1 entries- ле́дник noun (a large body of ice which flows under its own mass, usually downhill)
Burmese
1 entries- ရေခဲမြစ် noun (a large body of ice which flows under its own mass, usually downhill)
Catalan
1 entries- glacera noun (a large body of ice which flows under its own mass, usually downhill)
Central Melanau
1 entries- pejujoh noun (a large body of ice which flows under its own mass, usually downhill)
Chinese Cantonese
2 entries- 冰川 noun (a large body of ice which flows under its own mass, usually downhill)
- 冰河 noun (a large body of ice which flows under its own mass, usually downhill)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 冰川 noun (a large body of ice which flows under its own mass, usually downhill)
- 冰河 noun (a large body of ice which flows under its own mass, usually downhill)
Cornish
2 entries- rewiva noun (a large body of ice which flows under its own mass, usually downhill)
- rewliv noun (a large body of ice which flows under its own mass, usually downhill)
Corsican
1 entries- ghjacciale noun (a large body of ice which flows under its own mass, usually downhill)
Czech
1 entries- ledovec noun (a large body of ice which flows under its own mass, usually downhill)
Danish
3 entries- bræ noun (a large body of ice which flows under its own mass, usually downhill)
- gletsjer noun (a large body of ice which flows under its own mass, usually downhill)
- jøkel noun (a large body of ice which flows under its own mass, usually downhill)
Dutch
1 entries- gletsjer noun (a large body of ice which flows under its own mass, usually downhill)
Esperanto
3 entries- glaciaro noun (a large body of ice which flows under its own mass, usually downhill)
- glaciejo noun (a large body of ice which flows under its own mass, usually downhill)
- glaĉero noun (a large body of ice which flows under its own mass, usually downhill)
Estonian
1 entries- liustik noun (a large body of ice which flows under its own mass, usually downhill)
Faroese
1 entries- jøkul noun (a large body of ice which flows under its own mass, usually downhill)
Finnish
1 entries- jäätikkö noun (a large body of ice which flows under its own mass, usually downhill)
French
1 entries- glacier noun (a large body of ice which flows under its own mass, usually downhill)
Galician
1 entries- glaciar noun (a large body of ice which flows under its own mass, usually downhill)
Georgian
1 entries- მყინვარი noun (a large body of ice which flows under its own mass, usually downhill)
German
3 entries- Ferner noun (a large body of ice which flows under its own mass, usually downhill)
- Gletscher noun (a large body of ice which flows under its own mass, usually downhill)
- Kees noun (a large body of ice which flows under its own mass, usually downhill)
Greek
1 entries- παγετώνας noun (a large body of ice which flows under its own mass, usually downhill)
Greenlandic
1 entries- sermeq noun (a large body of ice which flows under its own mass, usually downhill)
Hebrew
1 entries- קַרְחוֹן noun (a large body of ice which flows under its own mass, usually downhill)
Hindi
2 entries- हिमनदी noun (a large body of ice which flows under its own mass, usually downhill)
- हिमानी noun (a large body of ice which flows under its own mass, usually downhill)
Hungarian
1 entries- gleccser noun (a large body of ice which flows under its own mass, usually downhill)
Icelandic
2 entries- jökull noun (a large body of ice which flows under its own mass, usually downhill)
- ísbreiða noun (a large body of ice which flows under its own mass, usually downhill)
Ido
1 entries- glaciero noun (a large body of ice which flows under its own mass, usually downhill)
Indonesian
1 entries- gletser noun (a large body of ice which flows under its own mass, usually downhill)
Iranian Persian
2 entries- پیرْیَخ noun (a large body of ice which flows under its own mass, usually downhill)
- یَخْسار noun (a large body of ice which flows under its own mass, usually downhill)
Irish
1 entries- oighearshruth noun (a large body of ice which flows under its own mass, usually downhill)
Italian
1 entries- ghiacciaio noun (a large body of ice which flows under its own mass, usually downhill)
Japanese
1 entries- 氷河 noun (a large body of ice which flows under its own mass, usually downhill)
Kazakh
1 entries- мұздық noun (a large body of ice which flows under its own mass, usually downhill)
Khmer
1 entries- ផ្ទាំងទឹកកក noun (a large body of ice which flows under its own mass, usually downhill)
Korean
1 entries- 빙하 noun (a large body of ice which flows under its own mass, usually downhill)
Kyrgyz
1 entries- мөңгү noun (a large body of ice which flows under its own mass, usually downhill)
Ladin
1 entries- giacé noun (a large body of ice which flows under its own mass, usually downhill)
Latin
2 entries- glaciarium noun (a large body of ice which flows under its own mass, usually downhill)
- glacier noun (a large body of ice which flows under its own mass, usually downhill)
Latvian
1 entries- ledājs noun (a large body of ice which flows under its own mass, usually downhill)
Limburgish
1 entries- gletsjer noun (a large body of ice which flows under its own mass, usually downhill)
Lithuanian
1 entries- ledynas noun (a large body of ice which flows under its own mass, usually downhill)
Luxembourgish
1 entries- Gletscher noun (a large body of ice which flows under its own mass, usually downhill)
Macedonian
3 entries- гле́чер noun (a large body of ice which flows under its own mass, usually downhill)
- ле́деник noun (a large body of ice which flows under its own mass, usually downhill)
- ле́дник noun (a large body of ice which flows under its own mass, usually downhill)
Malay
2 entries- glasier noun (a large body of ice which flows under its own mass, usually downhill)
- sungai air batu noun (a large body of ice which flows under its own mass, usually downhill)
Malayalam
1 entries- ഹിമപ്പരപ്പ് noun (a large body of ice which flows under its own mass, usually downhill)
Manx
1 entries- awin rioee noun (a large body of ice which flows under its own mass, usually downhill)
Mongolian
1 entries- мөсөн гол noun (a large body of ice which flows under its own mass, usually downhill)
Māori
1 entries- hukāpo noun (a large body of ice which flows under its own mass, usually downhill)
Nepali
1 entries- हिमनदी noun (a large body of ice which flows under its own mass, usually downhill)
Northern Sami
1 entries- jiehkki noun (a large body of ice which flows under its own mass, usually downhill)
Norwegian Bokmål
3 entries- bre noun (a large body of ice which flows under its own mass, usually downhill)
- isbre noun (a large body of ice which flows under its own mass, usually downhill)
- jøkel noun (a large body of ice which flows under its own mass, usually downhill)
Norwegian Nynorsk
3 entries- bre noun (a large body of ice which flows under its own mass, usually downhill)
- isbre noun (a large body of ice which flows under its own mass, usually downhill)
- jøkul noun (a large body of ice which flows under its own mass, usually downhill)
Occitan
2 entries- conglaç noun (a large body of ice which flows under its own mass, usually downhill)
- glacièr noun (a large body of ice which flows under its own mass, usually downhill)
Ossetian
1 entries- цъити noun (a large body of ice which flows under its own mass, usually downhill)
Plautdietsch
1 entries- Iessboach noun (a large body of ice which flows under its own mass, usually downhill)
Polish
1 entries- lodowiec noun (a large body of ice which flows under its own mass, usually downhill)
Portuguese
2 entries- geleira noun (a large body of ice which flows under its own mass, usually downhill)
- glaciar noun (a large body of ice which flows under its own mass, usually downhill)
Romanian
1 entries- ghețar noun (a large body of ice which flows under its own mass, usually downhill)
Romansch
4 entries- glatscher noun (a large body of ice which flows under its own mass, usually downhill)
- sglatscher noun (a large body of ice which flows under its own mass, usually downhill)
- vadret noun (a large body of ice which flows under its own mass, usually downhill)
- vadretg noun (a large body of ice which flows under its own mass, usually downhill)
Russian
2 entries- гле́тчер noun (a large body of ice which flows under its own mass, usually downhill)
- ледни́к noun (a large body of ice which flows under its own mass, usually downhill)
Saterland Frisian
1 entries- Glitsker noun (a large body of ice which flows under its own mass, usually downhill)
Scottish Gaelic
1 entries- eigh-shruth noun (a large body of ice which flows under its own mass, usually downhill)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- glȅčer noun (a large body of ice which flows under its own mass, usually downhill)
- lednik noun (a large body of ice which flows under its own mass, usually downhill)
- ledènjāk noun (a large body of ice which flows under its own mass, usually downhill)
- глечер noun (a large body of ice which flows under its own mass, usually downhill)
Shor
1 entries- мустағ noun (a large body of ice which flows under its own mass, usually downhill)
Sicilian
1 entries- ghiacciaiu noun (a large body of ice which flows under its own mass, usually downhill)
Sindhi
1 entries- برفال noun (a large body of ice which flows under its own mass, usually downhill)
Slovak
1 entries- ľadovec noun (a large body of ice which flows under its own mass, usually downhill)
Slovene
1 entries- ledenik noun (a large body of ice which flows under its own mass, usually downhill)
Southern Sami
1 entries- dielhtie noun (a large body of ice which flows under its own mass, usually downhill)
Spanish
2 entries- glaciar noun (a large body of ice which flows under its own mass, usually downhill)
- helero noun (a large body of ice which flows under its own mass, usually downhill)
Swahili
1 entries- barafuto noun (a large body of ice which flows under its own mass, usually downhill)
Swedish
2 entries- glaciär noun (a large body of ice which flows under its own mass, usually downhill)
- jökel noun (a large body of ice which flows under its own mass, usually downhill)
Tagalog
1 entries- glasyar noun (a large body of ice which flows under its own mass, usually downhill)
Tajik
1 entries- пирях noun (a large body of ice which flows under its own mass, usually downhill)
Tamil
1 entries- பனியாறு noun (a large body of ice which flows under its own mass, usually downhill)
Tatar
1 entries- бозлык noun (a large body of ice which flows under its own mass, usually downhill)
Thai
1 entries- ธารน้ำแข็ง noun (a large body of ice which flows under its own mass, usually downhill)
Tibetan
4 entries- གངས noun (a large body of ice which flows under its own mass, usually downhill)
- གངས་ཆེན noun (a large body of ice which flows under its own mass, usually downhill)
- གངས་རི noun (a large body of ice which flows under its own mass, usually downhill)
- འཁྱགས་ཀླུང noun (a large body of ice which flows under its own mass, usually downhill)
Turkish
1 entries- buzul noun (a large body of ice which flows under its own mass, usually downhill)
Turkmen
1 entries- buzluk noun (a large body of ice which flows under its own mass, usually downhill)
Ukrainian
1 entries- льодови́к noun (a large body of ice which flows under its own mass, usually downhill)
Upper Sorbian
1 entries- lodowc noun (a large body of ice which flows under its own mass, usually downhill)
Urdu
1 entries- گِلیشِیَر noun (a large body of ice which flows under its own mass, usually downhill)
Uyghur
1 entries- مۇزلۇق noun (a large body of ice which flows under its own mass, usually downhill)
Uzbek
1 entries- muzlik noun (a large body of ice which flows under its own mass, usually downhill)
Vietnamese
1 entries- sông băng noun (a large body of ice which flows under its own mass, usually downhill)
Volapük
1 entries- gladäd noun (a large body of ice which flows under its own mass, usually downhill)
Walloon
1 entries- glaecî noun (a large body of ice which flows under its own mass, usually downhill)
Welsh
1 entries- rhewlif noun (a large body of ice which flows under its own mass, usually downhill)
West-Frisian
1 entries- gletsjer noun (a large body of ice which flows under its own mass, usually downhill)
Yakut
1 entries- булуус noun (a large body of ice which flows under its own mass, usually downhill)
Yiddish
1 entries- גלעטשער noun (a large body of ice which flows under its own mass, usually downhill)
Yámana
1 entries- táun noun (a large body of ice which flows under its own mass, usually downhill)
Zazaki
1 entries- cemediye noun (a large body of ice which flows under its own mass, usually downhill)
Sample sentences
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The glacier moves slowly.
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The water comes straight from the glacier.
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It is dangerous to walk on a calving glacier.
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