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iceberg noun 1 a huge mass of ice broken off from a glacier or polar ice sheet and floating in the sea, with only a small part of it projecting above the surface of the sea. Sometimes shortened to berg. 2 an iceberg lettuce. 3 colloq, especially US a cold and unemotional person.
ETYMOLOGY: 19c; 18c in the obsolete sense 'an Arctic glacier': from Scandinavian or Dutch (see berg1).

iceberg noun 1 a huge mass of ice broken off from a glacier or polar ice sheet and floating in the sea, with only a small part of it projecting above the surface of the sea. Sometimes shortened to berg. 2 an iceberg lettuce. 3 colloq, especially US a cold and unemotional person.
ETYMOLOGY: 19c; 18c in the obsolete sense 'an Arctic glacier': from Scandinavian or Dutch (see berg1).

iceberg noun 1 a huge mass of ice broken off from a glacier or polar ice sheet and floating in the sea, with only a small part of it projecting above the surface of the sea. Sometimes shortened to berg. 2 an iceberg lettuce. 3 colloq, especially US a cold and unemotional person.
ETYMOLOGY: 19c; 18c in the obsolete sense 'an Arctic glacier': from Scandinavian or Dutch (see berg1).