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glacial — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • Arctic adjective Relating to the region around the North Pole.
  • freezing adj Extremely cold.
  • glacial adj Relating to glaciers or ice ages.

Senses

glacial is used for these senses in English:

  • Arctic Extremely cold, snowy, or having other properties of extreme winter associated with the Arctic. [from 16th c.]
  • freezing (by extension, chiefly, hyperbole) Very cold
  • frore (archaic) Extremely cold; frozen.
  • glacial Cold and icy.

Arctic — full definition

  1. adjective Relating to the region around the North Pole.
  2. adjective Extremely cold.

freezing — full definition

  1. adj Extremely cold.
  2. noun The process by which a liquid turns solid due to cold.

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