moraine

noun

mo·​raine mə-ˈrān 

: an accumulation of earth and stones carried and finally deposited by a glacier

morainal

mə-ˈrā-nᵊl 

adjective

morainic

mə-ˈrā-nik 

adjective

Examples of moraine in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

In 2023, thawing permafrost led to a rock collapse into South Lhonak Lake in Sikkim, India, generating a wave that burst through the moraine holding back the glacial lake. — Umesh Haritashya, The Conversation, 29 Aug. 2026

Expect lakes, moraines, river valleys, prairies, and thick forests. — Stephanie Vermillion, Travel + Leisure, 11 Apr. 2026

At Green-Wood Cemetery, an almost five-hundred-acre burial ground in western Brooklyn that rises and falls along an old push moraine, a nonprofit has partnered with the city on interventions meant to keep stormwater out of sixteen nearby sewersheds during heavy rainfall. — Eric Klinenberg, New Yorker, 6 Apr. 2026

Sometime in the next week, another part of the team, working from the South Korean icebreaker RV Araon, aims to drop another cable, which a robot will traverse once a day, down to a rocky moraine in the Amundsen Sea. — Christian Elliott, The Atlantic, 31 Jan. 2026

Word History

Etymology

French, from French dialect (Savoy) morêna

First Known Use

1783, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for moraine

• abstain
• airplane
• alkane
• arcane
• arraign
• attain
• backplane
• betaine
• biplane
• blockchain
• butane
• campaign

Kids Definition

moraine

noun

mo·​raine mə-ˈrān 

: a pile of earth and stones carried and deposited by a glacier