ice-free

English

Etymology

ice +‎ -free

Adjective

ice-free (not comparable)

1. Free of all ice; not covered in ice.
   • 1964, Joseph Earle Spencer, “CH’IN-HUANG-TAO”, in Encyclopedia Britannica‎^[1], volume 5, →OCLC, page 656, column 1:

     Ch’in-huang-tao had the largest glass factory in China. As the only ice-free port of north China, it developed an important transit trade by rail for Tientsin and south Manchuria, since the town is on the main rail line between Manchuria and north China.

Alternative forms

• icefree

Translations

free of ice

• Dutch: ijsvrij (nl)
• Esperanto: senglacia
• Estonian: jäävaba
• German: eisfrei (de)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: isfri

  Nynorsk: isfri

Further reading

• “ice-free”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.