An icicle is a spike of ice formed when water falling from an object freezes. Icicles can form during bright, sunny, but subfreezing weather, when ice or snow melted by sunlight or some other …

Some 300 years later, in Middle English, this became the compound known today as icicle, which means precisely what it did 1000 years ago. Examples are automatically compiled from online …

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/ ˈɑɪˌsɪ·kəl / Add to word list a pointed stick of ice that hangs down from something (Definition of icicle from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

Definition of icicle noun in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.

There are five meanings listed in OED's entry for the noun icicle, one of which is labelled obsolete. See ‘Meaning & use’ for definitions, usage, and quotation evidence.

Icicle definition: a pendent, tapering mass of ice formed by the freezing of dripping water.. See examples of ICICLE used in a sentence.

An icicle is a long pointed piece of ice hanging down from a surface. It forms when water comes slowly off the surface, and freezes as it falls. Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner’s Dictionary. …

An icicle is a long thin piece of ice formed when dripping water freezes, like the icicles you see hanging from houses after a winter storm.

icicle (ˈaɪsɪkəl) n a hanging spike of ice formed by the freezing of dripping water [C14: from ice + ickel, from Old English gicel icicle, related to Old Norse jökull large piece of ice, glacier]