Meaning

2 senses

  1. An iceberg.

  2. (South Africa)A mountain.

More definitions
  • Austrian composer in Schoenberg's twelve-tone music system (1885-1935)
  • a large mass of ice floating at sea; usually broken off of a polar glacier

Examples

4 sentences

  1. Berg is a center-back.

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  2. Mr. Berg is helping you.

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  3. Naivasha is Kenya's floriculture heartland and workers at Van den Berg Kenya are trimming, packing and refrigerating bundles of roses.

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  4. Berg explained to Vera, with a tender smile, that love came from the sky and did not belong to the earth.

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Origin

Clipping of iceberg. Borrowed from Afrikaans berg. Doublet of barrow and bergh.

Clipping of iceberg.

Borrowed from Afrikaans berg. Doublet of barrow and bergh.

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Forms

plural: bergs
Singularberg
Pluralbergs

regular

Synonyms

2 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • Austrian composer in Schoenberg's twelve-tone music system (1885-1935):Alban Berg
  • a large mass of ice floating at sea; usually broken off of a polar glacier:iceberg

Word family

8 related words
Relatedicebergbergshrund
Derivedbergfieldearthbergfatbergfloebergbergfallbergwind

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
beratebereavebereavementberetberlinberryB2berserk
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