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–noun

1.	a large floating mass of ice, detached from a glacier and carried out to sea.

2.	Informal. an emotionally cold person.

3.	Australian Informal. a person who swims or surfs regularly in winter.

—Idiom

4.	tip of the iceberg, the first hint or revelation of something larger or more complex: The new evidence in the case is just the tip of the iceberg.

[Origin: 1765–75; half Anglicization, half adoption of D ijsberg ice mountain; c. G Eisberg, Sw isberg

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ice·berg Audio Help (īs'bûrg') Pronunciation Key
n.

A massive floating body of ice broken away from a glacier. Only about 10 percent of its mass is above the surface of the water.
Informal A cold, aloof person.

[Partial translation of Dutch ijsberg, from Middle Dutch ijsbergh : ijs, ice + bergh, mountain; see bhergh-² in Indo-European roots.]

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Online Etymology Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
iceberg

1774, partial loan-transl. of Du. ijsberg, lit. "ice mountain," from ijs "ice" + berg "mountain." An earlier term was sea-hill (1694). Phrase tip of the iceberg, in a figurative sense, first recorded 1963.

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iceberg
noun
1.	a large mass of ice floating at sea; usually broken off of a polar glacier
2.	lettuce with crisp tightly packed light-green leaves in a firm head; "iceberg is still the most popular lettuce" [syn: crisphead lettuce]

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
ˈiceberg noun

a huge mass of ice floating in the sea

Arabic:	جَبَل جَليدي
Chinese (Simplified):	冰山
Chinese (Traditional):	冰山
Czech:	plovoucí ledovec
Danish:	isbjerg
Dutch:	ijsberg
Estonian:	jäämägi
Finnish:	jäävuori
French:	iceberg
German:	der Eisberg
Greek:	παγόβουνο
Hungarian:	jéghegy
Icelandic:	hafís, borgarísjaki
Indonesian:	gunung es
Italian:	iceberg

Japanese:	氷山
Korean:	빙산
Latvian:	aisbergs
Lithuanian:	ledkalnis
Norwegian:	isfjell
Polish:	góra lodowa
Portuguese (Brazil):	iceberg
Portuguese (Portugal):	icebergue
Romanian:	aisberg
Russian:	айсберг
Slovak:	ľadovec
Slovenian:	ledena gora
Spanish:	iceberg
Swedish:	isberg
Turkish:	buzdağı, aysberg

See also: ice-cube, icing, icy, ice-cream, ice, ice age, ice axe, ice box, ice over/up, ice rink, ice tray, ice-skate

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A massive body of floating ice that has broken away from a glacier or ice field. Most of an iceberg lies underwater, but because ice is not as dense as water, about one ninth of it remains above the surface.

American Heritage New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition - Cite This Source - Share This
iceberg

A large piece of ice that has broken away from a glacier at the shore and floated out to sea.

Note: Most of the ice in an iceberg is underwater, leaving only the “tip of the iceberg” visible — a fact that is often alluded to in discussions of subjects in which the most important aspects are hidden from view.

[Chapter:] Earth Sciences

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Iceberg

Berg\, n. [[root]95. See Barrow hill, and cf. Iceberg.] A large mass or hill, as of ice.

Glittering bergs of ice. --Tennyson.

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