ICE FIELD

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does ice field mean? 

• ICE FIELD (noun)
  The noun ICE FIELD has 1 sense:

1. a large flat mass of ice (larger than an ice floe) floating at sea

  Familiarity information: ICE FIELD used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ICE FIELD (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A large flat mass of ice (larger than an ice floe) floating at sea

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Hypernyms ("ice field" is a kind of...):

ice mass (a large mass of ice)

 Context examples 

Once part of a much larger ice field, Yakutat has been contracting for hundreds of years.

(Retreat of Yakutat Glacier, NASA)

It is the primary outlet for the 810-square kilometer Yakutat ice field, which drains into Harlequin Lake and, ultimately, the Gulf of Alaska.

(Retreat of Yakutat Glacier, NASA)

As other nearby glaciers retreated, Yakutat ice field was cut off from higher-elevation areas that once supplied a steady flow of ice from the north. With that flow cut off, there simply is not enough snow falling over the low-elevation Yakutat ice field to prevent it from retreating.

(Retreat of Yakutat Glacier, NASA)