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/ˈɡlæs.jə/ · noun
(geology) A large body of ice which flows under its own mass, usually downhill..
They warned that the effects of glacier melting on water resources are becoming “increasingly serious” for China.
You can ski down the glacier in both the winter and the summer.
The queue in the pharmacy was a glacier.
Use glacier when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Glacier means (geology) A large body of ice which flows under its own mass, usually downhill..
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They warned that the effects of glacier melting on water resources are becoming “increasingly serious” for China.
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