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lu 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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| —n , pl -loos, -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 |
| [C19: from Inuktitut igdlu house] | |
| iglu or iglu | |
| —n | |
| [C19: from Inuktitut igdlu house] | |
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Word Origin & History
igloo
1824, Canadian Eng., from an Eskimo word for "house, dwelling" (cf. Greenlandic igdlo "house").
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
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Example sentences
Each single igloo was a perishable item, but represented a tradition that lived until recently.
It was enough to make it clear that this was no igloo.
However, the next time you are in an igloo, notice that it is blue inside.
He rescued himself by quickly digging an igloo and warming himself inside it with a candle.
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