Definitions for iceberg

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iceberg ice·berg

Spelling: [ahys-burg]

IPA: /ˈaɪs bɜrg/

Iceberg is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 103 anagrams from letters in iceberg (bceegir).

Definitions for iceberg

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.

Idioms

1. tip of the iceberg, the first hint or revelation of something larger or more complex:

Origin of iceberg

1765-75; half Anglicization, half adoption of Dutch ijsberg ice mountain; cognate with German Eisberg, Swedish isberg

Examples for iceberg

As far as cash-grabs go, the VIP pass is only the tip of the iceberg.

Confusion over the catcher's eye black is just the tip of the iceberg for this befuddled limey.

I cast anchor under her lee—and 'twas like tyin' up to an iceberg at first.

Something would have been hurt, but it would not have been the iceberg.

In Russia, Uganda, and elsewhere around the world, legal change is the tip of the iceberg.

Does the pine contradict the rose or the lotusland the iceberg?

The recent botched executions are just the tip of the iceberg.

The logic here was a little unsound—if I remember the S.S. Titanic story, “iceberg” would have been the right name.

Then, with Johnson's assistance, he built a resting-place in an iceberg.

There is an iceberg all ready to hand; weve only got to hollow it out.