Synonymer

Uttal

  • RP:
    • IPA: /ˈaɪs.bɜːɡ/
  • US:
    • IPA: /ˈaɪs.bɝɡ/
  • Okänd accent:
    • IPA: /aisˌbəɹg/
Översättning
Substantiv
1.isberg {ett}

Definitioner

Substantiv

  1. A huge mass of ocean-floating ice which has broken off a glacier or ice shelf
  2. (US, slang) An aloof person.
  3. (figuratively, after an adjective) An impending disastrous event whose adverse effects are only beginning to show, in reference to one-tenth of the volume of an iceberg being visible above water.

Exempel

  • The Titanic hit an iceberg and sank.
  • He has little to lose: at present he will go down in history, alongside George W. Bush, as a skipper who ignored the looming fiscal iceberg.

Böjningsformer

Pluralicebergs

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