iceberg – English noun declension

English noun forms of iceberg

Noun: iceberg
Singulariceberg
Pluralicebergs

Sample Sentences

  • The Titanic hit an iceberg and sank.
  • Clissold the excellent cook, who should have gone with the motor party, tumbled off a small iceberg and concussed himself while posing or 'ponting' as it had come to be known- Griffith Taylor, with his usual wit, had defined 'to pont' as 'to spend a deuce of a time posing in an uncomfortable position'. [1997, Preston, Diana, Preston, Diana A first rate tragedy Constable, London: 160:]
  • The passengers still on board were keen to watch as Tessa's crew scrambled for their positions, and she heard jokes about icebergs and devil's triangles, and anxious childish queries answered by soothing adult tones. [2000, Michelle Jerott, A Great Catch, Avon Books, →ISBN:]
  • And although the iceberg appears to be maintaining its structure for now, in recent decades large icebergs that have taken this route “soon break up, disperse and melt,” said Meijers. [2025 March 4, Jack Guy, “World’s biggest iceberg runs aground off South Georgia”, in CNN, archived from the original on 06 Apr 2025:]
  • He has little to lose: at present he will go down in history, alongside George W. Bush, as a skipper who ignored the looming fiscal iceberg. [2013 November 23, “How Barack Obama can get at least some of his credibility back”, in The Economist, archived from the original on 10 Jan 2025:]
  • Near-synonym: rabbit hole
  • Do some digging into that politician's past life and associates, and you'll see that the iceberg runs deep.
  • There's a massive iceberg of increasingly crazy fanfics out there based around those two characters.
  • Check out the gaming iceberg on this post! There's some really freaky titles there that I've never heard of.
  • Today we're gonna talk about the Star Wars iceberg.

Etymology

1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *h₁eyH-
3. Proto-Indo-European *h₁eyH-so-der.
4. Proto-Germanic *īsą
5. Proto-West Germanic *īs
6. Old English īs
7. Middle English is
8. English ice
9. ▲
10. Dutch ijsbergpcalq.
11. English iceberg
12. Partial calque of Dutch ijsberg (compound of ijs (“ice”) + berg (“mountain”)), from Middle Dutch ijsberch. First used to describe a glacier as seen at a distance from a ship then used as a term to describe the floating chunks of ice broken off from such glaciers. Cognate to German Eisberg, Danish isbjerg, Norwegian isberg and Swedish isberg. Figurative senses in reference to the fact that only one-tenth of an iceberg is usually visible above water. See: German Nouns 'Eisberg', Danish Nouns 'isbjerg', Swedish Nouns 'isberg'.

Verbs referencing "iceberg"

French Nouns iceberg, Greek Nouns παγόβουνο, Romanian Nouns aisberg, Latvian Nouns aisbergs.