noun · 2 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot
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.
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Pronunciation
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Received-Pronunciation:/məˈɹeɪn/
Received-Pronunciation:/mɒˈɹeɪn/
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General-American:/məˈɹeɪn/
rhymes with -eɪn
CMU ARPABET:M ER0 EY1 N
Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
1
noun
Meaning 1
An accumulation of rocks and debris carried and deposited by a glacier.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: geography, geology, natural-sciences
Examples
1896, James Edward Todd, The Moraines of the Missouri Coteau, and Their Attendant Deposits, US Geological Survey, Bulletin No. 144, page 47, This fact is suggestive in connection with the question whether the moraines mark different epochs of the ice age or different stages in the recession of the ice of one epoch. This moraine, like the previous ones, influenced the drainage of the country. Several streams have evidently been located or directed by the influence of this moraine.
1959, Robert David Miller, Ernest Dobrovolny, Surficial Geology of Anchorage and Vicinity, Alaska, US Geological Survey, Bulletin No. 1093, page 61, Whether this advance beyond the Elmendorf Moraine is a pre-Naptowne Wisconsin or is merely a fluctuation of the Naptowne glacier that deposited the end moraine is unclear.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
2
noun
Meaning 2
accumulated earth and stones deposited by a glacier
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: earth, ground
History
Etymology
From French moraine, from Savoyard Italian morena, from Franco-Provençal mor, morre (“muzzle, snout”), from Vulgar Latin *murrum. Compare morion.
Across languages
Translations
66 source translations are retained for this English entry.
Afrikaans:
morene
— accumulation of rocks and debris
Albanian:
morena
— accumulation of rocks and debris
Aragonese:
morrena
— accumulation of rocks and debris
Armenian:
մորեն
(moren)
— accumulation of rocks and debris
Azerbaijani:
moren
— accumulation of rocks and debris
Basque:
morrena
— accumulation of rocks and debris
Belarusian:
марэ́на
(maréna)
— accumulation of rocks and debris
Bengali:
গ্রাবরেখা
(grabrekha)
— accumulation of rocks and debris
Bulgarian:
морена
(morena)
— accumulation of rocks and debris
Catalan:
morrena
— accumulation of rocks and debris
Catalan:
morena
— accumulation of rocks and debris
Catalan:
clapera
— accumulation of rocks and debris
Chinese Mandarin:
冰磧 /冰碛
(bīngqì)
— accumulation of rocks and debris
Czech:
moréna
— accumulation of rocks and debris
Danish:
moræne
— accumulation of rocks and debris
Dutch:
morene
— accumulation of rocks and debris
Esperanto:
moreno
— accumulation of rocks and debris
Estonian:
moreen
— accumulation of rocks and debris
Finnish:
moreeni
— accumulation of rocks and debris
French:
moraine
— accumulation of rocks and debris
West-Frisian:
morene
— accumulation of rocks and debris
Galician:
morena
— accumulation of rocks and debris
Georgian:
მორენა
(morena)
— accumulation of rocks and debris
German:
Moräne
— accumulation of rocks and debris
German:
Moräne
— accumulation of rocks and debris
Greek:
λιθώνας
(lithónas)
— accumulation of rocks and debris
Greek:
μοραίνη
(moraíni)
— accumulation of rocks and debris
Haitian Creole:
morèn
— accumulation of rocks and debris
Hebrew:
מוֹרֶנָה
(morena)
— accumulation of rocks and debris
Hungarian:
moréna
— accumulation of rocks and debris
Icelandic:
jökulgarður
— accumulation of rocks and debris
Ido:
moreno
— accumulation of rocks and debris
Interlingua:
morena
— accumulation of rocks and debris
Irish:
moiréan
— accumulation of rocks and debris
Italian:
morena
— accumulation of rocks and debris
Japanese:
モレーン
(morēn)
— accumulation of rocks and debris
Kazakh:
морена
(morena)
— accumulation of rocks and debris
Korean:
빙퇴석
(bingtoeseok)
— accumulation of rocks and debris
Korean:
모레인
(morein)
— accumulation of rocks and debris
Kyrgyz:
морена
(morena)
— accumulation of rocks and debris
Latin:
morēna
— accumulation of rocks and debris
Latvian:
morēna
— accumulation of rocks and debris
Lithuanian:
morena
— accumulation of rocks and debris
Macedonian:
морена
(morena)
— accumulation of rocks and debris
Malay:
morain
— accumulation of rocks and debris
Norwegian Bokmål:
morene
— accumulation of rocks and debris
Norwegian Nynorsk:
morene
— accumulation of rocks and debris
Occitan:
morrena
— accumulation of rocks and debris
Persian:
یخرفت
— accumulation of rocks and debris
Polish:
morena
— accumulation of rocks and debris
Portuguese:
morena
— accumulation of rocks and debris
Romanian:
morenă
— accumulation of rocks and debris
Russian:
море́на
(moréna)
— accumulation of rocks and debris
Serbo-Croatian:
море́на
— accumulation of rocks and debris
Serbo-Croatian:
moréna
— accumulation of rocks and debris
Slovak:
moréna
— accumulation of rocks and debris
Slovene:
morena
— accumulation of rocks and debris
Lower Sorbian:
morena
— accumulation of rocks and debris
Upper Sorbian:
morena
— accumulation of rocks and debris
Spanish:
morrena
— accumulation of rocks and debris
Swedish:
morän
— accumulation of rocks and debris
Tamil:
மொரைன்கள்
(moraiṉkaḷ)
— accumulation of rocks and debris
Turkish:
moren
— accumulation of rocks and debris
Ukrainian:
море́на
(moréna)
— accumulation of rocks and debris
Uzbek:
морена
(morena)
— accumulation of rocks and debris
