igloonoun [ C ]
uk/ˈɪɡ.luː/us/ˈɪɡ.luː/plural igloosa circular house made of blocks of hard snow, especially as built by the Inuit people of northern North America
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Houses & homes
- A-frame
- almshouse
- apartment
- apartment building
- apt
- flatlet
- flophouse
- garden apartment
- garden flat
- gated community
- public housing
- pueblo
- Quonset hut
- ranch house
- rest home
- villa
- walk-up
- wigwam
- workhouse
- yurt
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Examples from literature
- But they still build igloos when they travel away from home.
- Eskimos make fires inside the igloo and the snow keeps the heat in.
- The Eskimos cut the ice into squares, and they use these to build the igloo.
- You might think it is cold in an igloo, but it isn’t.