name
Meaning 1
A surname from German.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
esker
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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General-American: /ˈɛskɚ/
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Received-Pronunciation: /ˈɛskə/
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CMU ARPABET: EH1 S K ER0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
noun
Meaning 2
A long, narrow, sinuous ridge created by deposits from a stream running beneath a glacier.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- 2001, Allan D. Randall, Hydrogeologic Framework of Stratified-drift Aquifers in the Glaciated Northeastern United States, US Geological Survey Paper 1415-B, page B37, The multiple deltas must have formed sequentially, which led Thompson (1982) to conclude that the eskers were built in successive segments.
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noun
Meaning 3
(geology) a long winding ridge of post glacial gravel and other sediment; deposited by meltwater from glaciers or ice sheets
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
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Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: ridge
History
Etymology
Borrowed from German Esker.
From Irish eiscir (“esker, glacial ridge”).
Across languages
Translations
28 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Asturian: esker — ridge created under glacier
- Czech: esker — ridge created under glacier
- Dutch: esker — ridge created under glacier
- Dutch: smeltwaterrug — ridge created under glacier
- Estonian: oos — ridge created under glacier
- Estonian: vallseljak — ridge created under glacier
- Finnish: harju — ridge created under glacier
- French: esker — ridge created under glacier
- Galician: esker — ridge created under glacier
- German: Os — ridge created under glacier
- German: Ås — ridge created under glacier
- German: Wallberg — ridge created under glacier
- German: Esker — ridge created under glacier
- Hungarian: óz — ridge created under glacier
- Irish: eiscir — ridge created under glacier
- Italian: esker — ridge created under glacier
- Norwegian: esker — ridge created under glacier
- Norwegian: rullesteinsås — ridge created under glacier
- Norwegian: geiterygg — ridge created under glacier
- Norwegian: ås — ridge created under glacier
- Polish: oz — ridge created under glacier
- Portuguese: esker — ridge created under glacier
- Spanish: esker — ridge created under glacier
- Swedish: ås — ridge created under glacier
- Swedish: rullstensås — ridge created under glacier
- Turkish: esker — ridge created under glacier
- Welsh: esgair — ridge created under glacier
- Zazaki: quç — ridge created under glacier
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