berg

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UK/bɜːɡ/US/bɝɡ/

noun

An iceberg.

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Meanings

berg1

nounberg (plural bergs)

plural bergs

  1. An iceberg.

    The ice was thin, and only a few areas had bergs large enough to support marine mammals.

    1997, David J. Rugh with Kim E.W. Shelden, “Spotted Seals, Phoca Largha, in Alaska”, in Marine Fisheries Review, volume 59, number 1, page 1

berg2

nounberg (plural bergs)

plural bergs

  1. South AfricaA mountain.

    There are in fact many such subterranean underways in Germany, speeding traffic beneath bergs, burgs and villages and into and around and under big city downtowns ...

    2004, Alan Goldfein, “A Wonderful Drive”, in Europe's Macadam, America's Tar: How America Really Compares to "Old Europe", American Editions, →ISBN, page 46

Berg3

proper noun
  1. A place name, notably of:
    1. A former duchy and later grand duchy in North Rhine-Westphalia (Western Germany).
  2. A surname from German common in the US, associated with German or Scandinavian ancestry.

Synonyms & antonyms

nouna large mass of ice floating at sea; usually broken off of a polar glacier

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ice massfloater

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Origin

berg · noun

  1. Afrikaansberg
  2. Englishberg

Borrowed from Afrikaans berg. Doublet of barrow and bergh.

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Berg · proper noun

  1. Swedishberg
  2. GermanBerg
  3. EnglishBerg

From German Berg or Swedish berg, either term meaning hill or mountain.

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Rhymes & wordplay

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Sounds the same

burgburgh (one pronunciation)burgburgh (one pronunciation)

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Cite this entry
APA

berg. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/berg

MLA

“berg.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/berg. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “berg,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/berg.

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