ice cap

1. 1.

   a mass of ice and snow that permanently covers a large area of land (e.g., the polar regions or a mountain peak)

   Synonymsicecap

   Broaderice mass

Questions about ice cap

What does ice cap mean?

ice cap means "a mass of ice and snow that permanently covers a large area of land (e.g., the polar regions or a mountain peak)".

What is another word for ice cap?

Close synonyms include icecap. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is ice cap a common word?

ice cap is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.