Synonyms for ice age

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glacial · glacial period · glacial maximum

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Noun

Definitions

1. n. 1

   A period of long-term reduction in the temperature of Earth's surface and atmosphere, resulting in the presence of major polar ice sheets that reach the ocean and calve icebergs.

   The earth is currently in the Late Cenozoic Ice Age, an ice age that began 33.9 million years ago with the Antarctic Ice Cap.

Example sentences

• glacial Glacial water gets its colour from rock flour.

By length

7 letters

glacial²

The small number after each word is its number of syllables (glacial² = 2 syllables).