: a large body of ice moving slowly down a slope or valley or spreading outward on a land surface
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Mountains bare of the glaciers that once perched on their craggy peaks.
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Andrew Freedman, CNN Money, 12 Nov. 2025
The four-day climb toward the summit was grueling, with glaciers bridged by ladders, deep crevasses to navigate, and air that seemed to vanish with every step.
—Jordan Greene, PEOPLE, 12 Nov. 2025
Rachelle Salnave, a filmmaker in Haiti, sent me videos of a piece of the Route Nationale, the country’s main transportation artery, collapsing like a glacier into a roiling, swollen river.
—Clayton Dalton, New Yorker, 11 Nov. 2025
And the sea level, as glaciers melt, is rising.
—Vann R. Newkirk Ii, The Atlantic, 10 Nov. 2025
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Andrew Freedman, CNN Money, 12 Nov. 2025
The four-day climb toward the summit was grueling, with glaciers bridged by ladders, deep crevasses to navigate, and air that seemed to vanish with every step.
—Jordan Greene, PEOPLE, 12 Nov. 2025
Rachelle Salnave, a filmmaker in Haiti, sent me videos of a piece of the Route Nationale, the country’s main transportation artery, collapsing like a glacier into a roiling, swollen river.
—Clayton Dalton, New Yorker, 11 Nov. 2025
And the sea level, as glaciers melt, is rising.
—Vann R. Newkirk Ii, The Atlantic, 10 Nov. 2025
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“Glacier.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/glacier. Accessed 14 Nov. 2025.
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glacier
noun
gla·cier
ˈglā-shər 
: a large body of ice moving slowly down a slope or valley or spreading outward on a land surface
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