iceberg
pronunciation
How to pronounce iceberg in British English:
UK [ˈaɪsbɜːɡ]
How to pronounce iceberg in American English:
US [ˈaɪsbɜːrɡ]
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- Noun:
- a large mass of ice floating at sea; usually broken off of a polar glacier
- lettuce with crisp tightly packed light-green leaves in a firm head
Word Origin
- iceberg (n.)
- 1774, partial loan-translation of Dutch ijsberg, literally "ice mountain," from ijs "ice" (see ice (n.)) + berg "mountain" (see barrow (n.2)). An earlier term was sea-hill (1690s). Phrase tip of the iceberg, in a figurative sense, first recorded 1962. Iceberg lettuce attested from 1893.
Example
- 1. The iceberg that struck the titanic was almost invisible .
- 2. That 's the tip of the iceberg .
- 3. This is just the tip of china 's tourism iceberg .
- 4. He also shows off a spectacular electric blue iceberg .
- 5. An iceberg melts in greeland in 2007 .