glacier
noun /ˈɡlæsiə(r)/
/ˈɡleɪʃər/
- enlarge imagea slow-moving mass or river of ice, formed from snow on mountains or near the North Pole or South Pole
冰川 Topics Geographyb2Collocations DictionaryGlacier is used after these nouns:- mountain
词源mid 18th cent.: from French, from glace ‘ice’, based on Latin glacies.