deglaciation
/diɡleɪʃiˈeɪʃən/noun
deglaciation is a noun meaning “The removal of all glacial land ice from a region, usually by melting” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled D-E-G-L-A-C-I-A-T-I-O-N, and it appears about once in every 24 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of deglaciation is deglaciations.
What does deglaciation mean?
noun
- 1
The removal of all glacial land ice from a region, usually by melting.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce deglaciation?
- /diɡleɪʃiˈeɪʃən/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Wodencafe-deglaciation.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of deglaciation
- deglaciations plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is deglaciation?
Deglaciation appears about once in every 24 million words in written English, the 148,541st most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Deglaciation in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense removal of all glacial land ice:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| German | Entgletscherung, Gletscherschmelze, Gletscherschwund, Deglaziation |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does deglaciation come from?
From de- + glaciation.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).