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berg

nounnounattested in dialogue

  • United Kingdom//bɜːɡ//
  • United States//bɝɡ//

An iceberg.

noun

  1. 1

    An iceberg.

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

Etymology

Clipping of iceberg.

noun

  1. 1

    A 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 ...

Etymology

Borrowed from Afrikaans berg. Doublet of barrow and bergh.

Forms

plural
bergs
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).