name
Meaning 1
An administrative district of Seychelles.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Standard Lemma guide
glacis
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, Received-Pronunciation: /ˈɡleɪsɪs/
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Southern-England: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
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rhymes with -eɪsɪs
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General-American, Received-Pronunciation: /ˈɡlæsi/
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Southern-England: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
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homophone: glassy (no trap-bath split)
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rhymes with -æsi
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CMU ARPABET: G L EY1 S AH0 S Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
noun
Meaning 2
A gentle incline.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
Meaning 3
A gentle incline.
A gentle sloping landform created by the deposition or erosion of material.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: geography, geology, geomorphology, natural-sciences
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noun
Meaning 4
A gentle incline.
A gentle incline in front of a fortification which protects it from cannon fire and exposes attackers to more effective return fire from defenders.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: also, figuratively
Topics: architecture, government, military, politics, war
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Synonyms: talus
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 5
A gentle incline.
In full glacis plate: the angled armour plate on the front of a tank which protects it from projectiles; also (often nautical), such a plate protecting an opening (for example, on a ship).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: government, military, politics, war
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noun
Meaning 6
A gentle incline.
A device for sorting mail which slides parcels across a sloped surface.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Qualifier: postal
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History
Etymology
Borrowed from French glacis (“slippery surface”), derived from Old French glacier (“to glide; freeze”), the former from Latin glaciāre (“to freeze”), from glaciēs (“ice”), of uncertain origin. Cognates * Medieval Latin glatia (“incline in front of a fortification”)
Across languages
Translations
50 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Finnish: loiva rinne — gentle incline
- Macedonian: бла́г на́клон (blág náklon) — gentle incline
- Russian: поло́гий скат (pológij skat) — gentle incline
- Finnish: vieru — gentle sloping landform created by the deposition or erosion of material
- Macedonian: па́дина (pádina) — gentle sloping landform created by the deposition or erosion of material
- Belarusian: гласіс (hlasis) — gentle incline in front of a fortification
- Bulgarian: гла́сис (glásis) — gentle incline in front of a fortification
- Catalan: glacis — gentle incline in front of a fortification
- Chinese Mandarin: 斜堤 (xiédī, xiétí) — gentle incline in front of a fortification
- Czech: glacis — gentle incline in front of a fortification
- Czech: koliště — gentle incline in front of a fortification
- Dutch: glacis — gentle incline in front of a fortification
- Estonian: glassii — gentle incline in front of a fortification
- Finnish: linnanpaltta — gentle incline in front of a fortification
- Finnish: luiska — gentle incline in front of a fortification
- Finnish: vieru — gentle incline in front of a fortification
- Finnish: glasiisi — gentle incline in front of a fortification
- French: glacis — gentle incline in front of a fortification
- German: Glacis — gentle incline in front of a fortification
- Hebrew: חלקלקה — gentle incline in front of a fortification
- Irish: claonfort — gentle incline in front of a fortification
- Italian: spalto — gentle incline in front of a fortification
- Japanese: 斜堤 (hasu tsutsumi) — gentle incline in front of a fortification
- Korean: 글라시 (geullasi) — gentle incline in front of a fortification
- Lithuanian: glacis — gentle incline in front of a fortification
- Luxembourgish: glacis — gentle incline in front of a fortification
- Macedonian: на́клон (náklon) — gentle incline in front of a fortification
- Macedonian: па́дина (pádina) — gentle incline in front of a fortification
- Māori: tahitahi — gentle incline in front of a fortification
- Norwegian Bokmål: glacis — gentle incline in front of a fortification
- Persian: شیب حصار — gentle incline in front of a fortification
- Polish: przedstok — gentle incline in front of a fortification
- Portuguese: glacis — gentle incline in front of a fortification
- Romanian: glacis — gentle incline in front of a fortification
- Russian: гласис (glasis) — gentle incline in front of a fortification
- Serbo-Croatian: гла̀сија — gentle incline in front of a fortification
- Serbo-Croatian: glàsija — gentle incline in front of a fortification
- Slovene: glasija — gentle incline in front of a fortification
- Spanish: glacis — gentle incline in front of a fortification
- Swedish: glaci — gentle incline in front of a fortification
- Swedish: glacis — gentle incline in front of a fortification
- Turkish: glasi — gentle incline in front of a fortification
- Turkish: şev — gentle incline in front of a fortification
- Ukrainian: гласи́с (hlasýs) — gentle incline in front of a fortification
- Finnish: etulevy — tank's angled armour plate
- Finnish: etupanssari — tank's angled armour plate
- Macedonian: пре́дна пло́ча (prédna plóča) — tank's angled armour plate
- Macedonian: зако́сена пло́ча (zakósena plóča) — tank's angled armour plate
- Russian: лобова́я дета́ль (lobovája detálʹ) — tank's angled armour plate
- Finnish: luiska — device for sorting mail