Meaning

4 senses
  1. Any type of sea ice not attached to land, drift ice.

    a flat mass of ice (smaller than an ice field) floating at sea

  2. An ice dam (ice jam), a blockage of ice in a river starting with an ice floe in the river.

  3. An ice stream (ice flow), a type of fast moving glacier

  4. A flat mass of floating ice, smaller than an ice field.

Origin

From ice + floe.

From ice + floe.

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Forms

plural: ice floes

Synonyms

2 synonyms
ice float
Close in meaning
  • a flat mass of ice (smaller than an ice field) floating at sea:floe

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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