Glacier synonyms
glā'shər
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A massive body of floating ice that has broken away from a glacier or ice field. Most of an iceberg lies underwater, but because ice is not as dense as water, about one ninth of it remains above the surface.
An extensive dome-shaped or platelike perennial cover of ice and snow that spreads out from a center and covers a large area, especially of land or a polar region.
ice-field
A large expanse of ice covering a mountainous region and consisting of several interconnected glaciers.
glacial mass
glaciers (related)
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firn
The granular snow, not in a completely compacted mass, that accumulates at the top of a glacier
ice-floe
A large, flat expanse of floating ice smaller than a marine ice field.
ice stream
glacial table
ice torrent
sérac
fjord (related)
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mer de glace (French)
vatnajokull (related)
myrdalsjokull (related)
snowfield (related)
Kangerdlugssuaq (related)
mountain-range (related)
Potaniin (related)
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névé
marmolada (related)
ice-sheet
A large sheet of ice and snow that covers an entire region and spreads out under its own weight.
plateau (related)
mountain (related)
biafo (related)
Baltoro (related)
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moraine (related)
dachstein (related)
snow slide
Find another word for glacier. In this page you can discover 31 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for glacier, like: floe, iceberg, icecap, ice-field, glacial mass, berg, glaciers, firn, ice-floe, ice stream and glacial table.
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