Berg
/bɜːɡ/ name, noun
name, noun ·Uncommon ·College level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 An iceberg.
"The ice was thin, and only a few areas had bergs large enough to support marine mammals."
- 2 A mountain. South-Africa
"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 ..."
- 3 a large mass of ice floating at sea; usually broken off of a polar glacier wordnet
Proper Noun
- 1 A place name, notably of:; A former duchy and later grand duchy in North Rhine-Westphalia (Western Germany).
- 2 A place name, notably of:; A municipality of Troms, Norway.
- 3 A place name, notably of:; A municipality in Jämtland County, Sweden.
- 4 A surname from German common in the US, associated with German or Scandinavian ancestry.
Antonyms
All antonymsExample
More examples"Berg explained to Vera, with a tender smile, that love came from the sky and did not belong to the earth."
Etymology
Etymology 1
Clipping of iceberg.
Etymology 2
Borrowed from Afrikaans berg. Doublet of barrow and bergh.
Etymology 3
From German Berg or Swedish berg, either term meaning hill or mountain.