bergs

Glacial chunks afloat

Bergs is the plural of berg, a clipped form of iceberg—a massive chunk of ice floating in the sea: The ship navigated carefully through the bergs.

In South African English, berg refers to a mountain, making bergs simply mountains: We hiked through the bergs of the Drakensberg.

icebergs

ice

Water's solid form

Antarctic · Titanic · calving · drift · melt · polar · frozen · massive · submerged · tip

mountains

peaks

Highest points attained

South African · escarpment · alpine · rocky · cliffs · elevation · terrain · ridges · climbing · panoramic

towns

Johannesburg

South Africa's economic hub

Categories
Opposites
ice formation type

bergspack ice

Consolidated floating sea ice

sea ice · drift ice · floes · ice floes · sheet ice

thermal state

bergsmolten lava

Heated rock from eruptions

magma · hot springs · geysers · thermal vents · warm currents

geographic/environmental context

bergscoral reefs

Calcium carbonate marine structures

tropical islands · atolls · desert dunes · oases · tropical seas

Phrases
Family

iceberg, icebergs, berg, iceberg lettuce

Familiarity
Top 500,000
Profile
Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G