glacis
English · Español · Français · Deutsch · Română · Thesaurus
AI In plain words
Writing a short explanation…
Written by a house AI from the entry below, in your language. The entry itself is the source.
glacis¹
- /ˈɡleɪsɪs/ US, UK
- /ˈɡlæsi/ US, UK
Sounds like glassy (no trap-bath split) · Rhymes with -eɪsɪs, -æsi
Where it comes from
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”)
noun glacises · glacis
- A gentle incline. The foam of these great ruins mounts in an instant to the ridge of the sand glacis, swiftly fleets back again, and is met and buried by the next breaker.
- A gentle sloping landform created by the deposition or erosion of material.
-
A gentle incline in front of a fortification which protects it from cannon fire and exposes attackers to more effective return fire from defenders.
I think, quoth Corporal Trim, with humble submission to your Honour’s better judgment,——that these ravelins, bastions, curtins, and hornworks, make but a poor, contemptible, fiddle-faddle piece of work of it here upon paper, compared to what your Honour and I could make of it were we in the country
Similar: talus
- 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).
- A device for sorting mail which slides parcels across a sloped surface.
Glacis²
proper noun
- An administrative district of Seychelles.
Translations
Every language
noun gentle incline
| Русский | поло́гий скат pológij skat |
|---|
noun gentle incline in front of a fortification
| Español | glacis |
|---|---|
| 한국어 | 글라시 geullasi |
| 日本語 | 斜堤 hasu tsutsumi |
| 中文 | 斜堤 xiédī, xiétí |
| Português | glacis |
| Français | glacis |
| Deutsch | Glacis |
| Italiano | spalto |
| Română | glacis |
| Русский | гласис glasis |
| עברית | חלקלקה |
noun tank's angled armour plate
| Русский | лобова́я дета́ль lobovája detálʹ |
|---|
Talk about this word "glacis." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/glacis. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026. glacis. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/glacis "glacis." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/glacis.Cite this
@misc{glacis_2026,
title = {glacis},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
url = {https://micwyn.com/word/glacis},
urldate = {2026-11-06}
}
