Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A mass of floating or stationary ice; an iceberg.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A large floating mass or mountain of ice; an iceberg.
  • noun A rock.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun A large mass or hill, as of ice.

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  • noun Mountain, a large mass or hill.
  • noun An iceberg.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun Austrian composer in Schoenberg's twelve-tone music system (1885-1935)
  • noun a large mass of ice floating at sea; usually broken off of a polar glacier

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Short for iceberg.]

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From Middle English bergh, berg, from Old English berg, beorg ("mountain, hill"), from Proto-Germanic *bergaz, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰergʰ (“height”). Cognate with Dutch berg, German Berg, Swedish berg, and Russian берег (béreg).

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  • From Middle English bergh, berg, from Old English berg, beorg (“mountain, hill”).

    January 22, 2012