Iceberg (Noun)
Meaning 1
Lettuce with crisp tightly packed light-green leaves in a firm head; "iceberg is still the most popular lettuce".
Classification
Nouns denoting foods and drinks.
Synonyms
Hypernyms
Meaning 2
A large mass of ice floating at sea; usually broken off of a polar glacier.
Classification
Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made).
Examples
- The ship's crew spotted a massive iceberg in the distance, its towering peak glistening in the sunlight.
- The cruise ship altered its course to avoid a collision with the large iceberg that had broken off from the Antarctic glacier.
- Icebergs like the one that sank the Titanic are formed when chunks of ice break off from glaciers and fall into the ocean.
- The scientists were studying the effects of climate change on the formation of icebergs in the Arctic Circle.
- As the glacier calved, a massive iceberg broke off and began to float away, a slow-moving behemoth in the frigid waters.