Word Type

Noun

Proper Noun

The word "glacier" can be used as noun and proper noun.

Word Relationships

Typical Location

top of mountain

Derived Terms

Doomsday Glacier Glacier County Glaciergate Hubbard Glacier Ruth Glacier Siachen Glacier Thwaites Glacier continental glacier glaciation glacier bird glacier buttercup glacier cream glacier glasses glacier lily glacier milk glacier mouse glaciered glacierist glacierization glacierized glacierless glacierlike palaeoglacier paleoglacier rock glacier salt glacier snowdrift glacier

Context

geology

Broader Terms (Hypernyms)

ice mass

Type Of (IsA)

ecological region frozen fresh water ice mass layer natural inanimate thing river of ice slowly moving river of ice topographical feature

Part Of

cryosphere

Related Terms

glacial glaciate glaciology iceberg

Related Terms

creeping creeping ice fjord formation frozen glass glass ice ice ice formation ice river iceberg large large iceberg river

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.