- an extremely large mass of ice floating in the sea
- The ship struck a hidden iceberg.
Oxford Collocations DictionaryIceberg is used before these nouns:- lettuce
Word Originlate 18th cent.: from Dutch ijsberg, from ijs ‘ice’ + berg ‘hill’.Definitions on the go
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Idioms
See iceberg in the Oxford Advanced American DictionarySee iceberg in the Oxford Learner's Dictionary of Academic Englishthe tip of the iceberg
- only a small part of a much larger problem
- This figure represents only the tip of the iceberg, since as many as 90% of cases go unreported.
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