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noun, plural ig·loos.
1.
an Eskimo 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.
Also, ig·lu.
Origin:
1855–60; < Inuit iglu house
1855–60; < Inuit iglu house
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igloo
1824, Canadian Eng., from an Eskimo word for "house, dwelling" (cf. Greenlandic igdlo "house").
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