ice field

1. 1.

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

   Broaderice mass

Questions about ice field

What does ice field mean?

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

Is ice field a common word?

ice field 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.