BERG

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Berg mean? 

• BERG (noun)
  The noun BERG has 2 senses:

1. a large mass of ice floating at sea; usually broken off of a polar glacier

2. Austrian composer in Schoenberg's twelve-tone music system (1885-1935)

  Familiarity information: BERG used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BERG (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A large mass of ice floating at sea; usually broken off of a polar glacier

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Synonyms:

berg; iceberg

Hypernyms ("berg" is a kind of...):

floater (an object that floats or is capable of floating)

ice mass (a large mass of ice)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "berg"):

growler (a small iceberg or ice floe just large enough to be hazardous for shipping)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Austrian composer in Schoenberg's twelve-tone music system (1885-1935)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Alban Berg; Berg

Instance hypernyms:

composer (someone who composes music as a profession)

 Context examples 

In this case, the new berg is likely to follow a similar path to the icebergs produced by the collapse of Larsen B: north along the coast of the Peninsula, then northeast into the South Atlantic.

(Massive Iceberg Breaks Off from Antarctica, NASA)