Definitions for moraine

moraine mo·raine

Spelling: [muh-reyn]
IPA: /məˈreɪn/

Moraine is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 274 anagrams from letters in moraine (aeimnor).

Definitions for moraine

noun

  1. a ridge, mound, or irregular mass of unstratified glacial drift, chiefly boulders, gravel, sand, and clay.
  2. a deposit of such material left on the ground by a glacier.

Origin of moraine

1780-90; French Savoyard dialect morêna rise in the ground along the lower edge of a sloping field, equivalent to mour(o) mound, accumulation of earth (*murr- mound, elevation, apparently pre

Examples for moraine

On the opposite side were the slope and summit of the moraine.

I had not known that I lived on a moraine, and now that I knew it, I did not care.

A new site was selected on a moraine, only a short distance from the old one.

It was on the moraine side of the river that we made our camp.

Steck crumpled to the moraine, and it looked as though he'd be bludgeoned to death.

A descent of 600 feet in the next two miles takes us to moraine Meadows.

The moraine Colony was closely embowered in a pitchy forest.

To understand this, however, I must first explain what a moraine is.

This horn has been sent Arthur by Mangounz, king of moraine.

Toward evening I clambered down to the cottage by moraine Lake.

Word Value for moraine
Scrable

9

Words with friends

11

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