alpine glacier

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   a glacier that moves down from a high valley

   SynonymsAlpine type of glacier

   Broaderglacier

Questions about alpine glacier

What does alpine glacier mean?

alpine glacier means "a glacier that moves down from a high valley".

What is another word for alpine glacier?

Close synonyms include Alpine type of glacier. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is alpine glacier a common word?

alpine glacier is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.