glacière
French, noun/ɡla.sjɛʁ/
glacière is spelled G-L-A-C-I-È-R-E (8 letters) and appears 1.0 times per million words in written French, the 30,509th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Glacière is a French feminine noun meaning “icehouse (a deep cellar or outdoor building used for the storage of ice)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Glacier”.
What does glacière mean in English?
noun
- 1
feminineicehouse (a deep cellar or outdoor building used for the storage of ice)
- 2
feminineice cave
- 3
feminineicebox
- 4
feminineice chest, coolbox
- 5
femininefreezer (a very cold place)
- 6
femininewaiting room (used as a means to soften a suspect)
Une heure ou deux en glacière suffisaient souvent à rendre les gens plus loquaces.
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Glacier. 2. Grand creux fait en terre, ordinairement maçonné, voûté et recouvert de terre et de paille, dans lequel on conserve de la glace ou de la neige. 3. Bâtiment industriel où l’on produit de la glace. 4. Meuble, avant l’invention des réfrigérateurs, utilisé pour garder au frais les aliments.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of glacière
- glacières plural
- glacier masculine
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce glacière?
- /ɡla.sjɛʁ/
- \ɡla.sjɛʁ\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to glacière
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is glacière in French?
glacière appears 1.0 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).