iceberg
Syllables: ice·bergUK/ˈaɪsbɜːɡ/US/ˈaɪsbɝɡ/
iceberg noun: the seaward end of a glacier.
Noun
iceberg (plural icebergs)
- The seaward end of a glacier.
- A huge mass of ocean-floating ice which has broken off a glacier or ice shelf
- The Titanic hit an iceberg and sank.
- Clissold the excellent cook, who should have gone with the motor party, tumbled off a small iceberg and concussed himself while posing or 'ponting' as it had come to be known- Griffith Taylor, with his usual wit, had defined 'to pont' as 'to spend a deuce of a time posing in an uncomfortable...1997, Preston, Diana, Preston, Diana A first rate tragedy Constable, London: 160
- An aloof person.
- An impending disastrous event whose adverse effects are only beginning to show.
- He has little to lose: at present he will go down in history, alongside George W. Bush, as a skipper who ignored the looming fiscal iceberg.2013 November 23, “How Barack Obama can get at least some of his credibility back”, in The Economist, archived from the original on 10 Jan 2025
- A topic that is more convoluted and fractal than it may seem.
- Near-synonym: rabbit hole
- Do some digging into that politician's past life and associates, and you'll see that the iceberg runs deep.
- Synonyms:
- rabbit hole
- A list, infographic, or other enumeration of such a topic and its subcomponents, often ordered into groups sorted by obscurity and bizarreness.
- Check out the gaming iceberg on this post! There's some really freaky titles there that I've never heard of.
- Today we're gonna talk about the Star Wars iceberg.
iceberg meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
iceberg in Hindi
- huge mass of floating ice
- हिमशैल himśail, हिमखंड himkhaṇḍ
iceberg in Tamil
- பனித்தொடர், பனிப்பாறை, ஆலிப்பாளம்
iceberg in Marathi
- huge mass of floating ice
- हिमनग himnag, हिमशैल himśail
iceberg in Urdu
- huge mass of floating ice
- آئس برگ āis barg
More languagesFewer languages
- iceberg in Bengali
- হিমশৈল himośōil
- iceberg in Telugu
- ఐస్బర్గ్
- iceberg in Malayalam
- ഹിമപടലം, വികാരവിഹീനൻ, മഞ്ഞുമല, ഹിമാനി
- iceberg in Kannada
- ಮಂಜುಗುಡ್ಡೆ, ಮಂಜುಬಂಡೆ, ಹಿಮಗುಡ್ಡೆ, ನೀರ್ಗಲ್ಲಬಂಡೆ
- iceberg in Punjabi
- ਆਈਸਬਰਗ
- iceberg in Odia
- ଆଇସବର୍ଗ, ବରଫଖଣ୍ଡ, ଆଇସବର୍ଗ୍
- iceberg in Nepali
- आइसबर्ग
- iceberg in Arabic
- جَبَل جَلِيد jabal jalīd, جَبَل جَلِيدِيّ jabal jalīdiyy, كُتْلَة جَلِيدِيَّة kutla jalīdiyya
- iceberg in Malay
- aisberg
- iceberg in Indonesian
- gunung es
- iceberg in Persian
- یخکوه yaxkuh, آیسبرگ âysberg
- iceberg in Thai
- ภูเขาน้ำแข็ง puu-kǎo-nám-kɛ̌ng
- iceberg in Vietnamese
- núi băng trôi, băng sơn
- iceberg in Myanmar
- ရေခဲတောင် rehkai:taung
Examples of iceberg in a sentence
- There's a massive iceberg of increasingly crazy fanfics out there based around those two characters.
- And although the iceberg appears to be maintaining its structure for now, in recent decades large icebergs that have taken this route “soon break up, disperse and melt,” said Meijers.2025 March 4, Jack Guy, “World’s biggest iceberg runs aground off South Georgia”, in CNN, archived from the original on 06 Apr 2025:
Synonyms of iceberg
Forms of iceberg
| plural | icebergs |
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Origin of iceberg
Partial calque of Dutch ijsberg (compound of ijs (“ice”) + berg (“mountain”)), from Middle Dutch ijsberch. First used to describe a glacier as seen at a distance from a ship then used as a term to describe the floating chunks of ice broken off from such glaciers. Cognate to German Eisberg, Danish isbjerg, Norwegian isberg and Swedish isberg. Figurative senses in reference to the fact that only one-tenth of an iceberg is usually visible above water.
Words formed from iceberg
- bergy bit
- blue iceberg
- earthberg
- iceberg basement
- iceberg chart
- iceberg droppings
- iceberger
- iceberg green
- iceberg lettuce
- iceberglike
- iceberg theory
- iceberg video
- icebergy
- oilberg
- tip of the iceberg
Phrases with iceberg
Questions about iceberg
- What does iceberg mean?
- Iceberg means the seaward end of a glacier.
- What is iceberg in Hindi?
- Iceberg in Hindi is हिमशैल (himśail), हिमखंड (himkhaṇḍ). See Iceberg meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use iceberg in a sentence?
- There's a massive iceberg of increasingly crazy fanfics out there based around those two characters.
- What part of speech is iceberg?
- Iceberg is a noun.
- How do you pronounce iceberg?
- Iceberg is pronounced /ˈaɪsbɜːɡ/ (UK).
- What is the plural of iceberg?
- The plural of iceberg is icebergs.
Words near iceberg in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: iceberg (page history and authors); iceberg (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); iceberg (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); iceberg (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); iceberg (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); iceberg (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); iceberg (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); iceberg (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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