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igloo
(ɪgluː)
Word forms: plural igloos
countable noun
Igloos are dome-shaped houses built from blocks of snow by the Inuit people.
igloo in British English
or iglu (ˈɪɡluː)
nounWord forms: plural -loos or -lus
1.
a dome-shaped Inuit house, usually built of blocks of solid snow
2.
a hollow made by a seal in the snow over its breathing hole in the ice
Word origin
C19: from Inuktitut igdlu houseigloo in American English
(ˈiɡluː)
nounWord forms: plural -loos
Also: iglu1.
an Inuit house, being a dome-shaped hut usually built of blocks of hard snow
2. informal
any dome-shaped construction thought to resemble an igloo
immense silos topped with steel igloos
3. Military
a dome-shaped building for the storage of rockets or other munitions
4.
an excavation made by a seal in the snow over its breathing hole in the ice
Word origin
[1855–60; ‹ Inuit iglu house]Image ofigloo
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Examples of 'igloo' in a sentenceigloo
- the sex industry
- the seychelles
- the shades
- the shadow cabinet
- the shakers
- the shakes
- the shallows
- the shape of things to come
- the shield
- the ship
- the shipping forecast
- the shires
- the shit hits the fan
- the shit hit the fan
- the shits
- the shivers
- the shoe is on the other foot
- the shore(s) of ...
- the short end of the stick
- the shot which you heard/which killed him
- the show me state
- the shudders
- the sick
- the sidhe
- thesiger