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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024av•a•lanche /ˈævəˌlæntʃ/USA pronunciation n. [countable]- Geologya large mass of snow, ice, etc., that comes loose from a mountain slope and slides or falls suddenly downward.
- anything like an avalanche in suddenness and volume: received an avalanche of fan mail.
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024av•a•lanche (av′ə lanch′, -länch′),USA pronunciation n., v., -lanched, -lanch•ing. n. - a large mass of snow, ice, etc., detached from a mountain slope and sliding or falling suddenly downward.
- anything like an avalanche in suddenness and overwhelming quantity:an avalanche of misfortunes; an avalanche of fan mail.
- PhysicsAlso called Townsend avalanche. a cumulative ionization process in which the ions and electrons of one generation undergo collisions that produce a greater number of ions and electrons in succeeding generations.
v.i. - to come down in, or like, an avalanche.
v.t. - to overwhelm with an extremely large amount of anything;
swamp.
- pre-Latin (perh. Ligurian) *lavanca, or reshaping of Late Latin labīna landslide (derivative of Latin labī to slide) with a pre-Latin suffix -anca
- dialect, dialectal (Savoy) avalantse, alteration (by association with avaler to descend rapidly) of laventse
- French
- 1755–65
Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: avalanche /ˈævəˌlɑːntʃ/ n - a fall of large masses of snow and ice down a mountain
- a fall of rocks, sand, etc
- a sudden or overwhelming appearance of a large quantity of things
vb - to come down overwhelmingly (upon)
Etymology: 18th Century: from French, by mistaken division from la valanche, from valanche, from (northwestern Alps) dialect lavantse; related to Old Provençal lavanca, of obscure origin |