ice floe

1. 1.

   a flat mass of ice (smaller than an ice field) floating at sea

   Synonymsfloe

   Broaderice mass

Questions about ice floe

What does ice floe mean?

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

What is another word for ice floe?

Close synonyms include floe. 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 floe a common word?

ice floe 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.