NEVE

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

The upper part of a glacier (beyond the limit of perpetual snow) where the snow turns to ice

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Hypernyms ("neve" is a kind of...):

ice (the frozen part of a body of water)

Holonyms ("neve" is a part of...):

glacier (a slowly moving mass of ice)

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