berg

Noun

WordNet 3.0

Noun (2)

  1. a large mass of ice floating at sea; usually broken off of a polar glacierSynonyms: iceberg
  2. Austrian composer in Schoenberg's twelve-tone music system (1885-1935)Synonyms: Alban Berg
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)

Berg (…), noun

Origin: √95. See Barrow hill, and cf. Iceberg.

A large mass or hill, as of ice.

Glittering bergs of ice.— Alfred Tennyson

Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54

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