Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. An Inuit or Eskimo dwelling, especially a dome-shaped winter dwelling built of blocks of packed snow.
- n. A dome-shaped structure or building.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Among the Eskimos, a dome-shaped hut, usually built of shaped blocks of hard snow, with a window made of a slab of ice. In some cases the entrance is protected by means of a smaller hut, called a stormigloo.
- n. Hence — The excavation which a seal makes in the snow over its breathing-hole.
Wiktionary
- n. A dome-shaped Inuit shelter, constructed of blocks cut from snow.
- n. zoology A cavity, or excavation, made in the snow by a seal, over its breathing hole in the sea ice.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. An Eskimo snow house.
- n. (Zoöl.) A cavity, or excavation, made in the snow by a seal, over its breathing hole in the ice.
WordNet 3.0
- n. an Eskimo hut; usually built of blocks (of sod or snow) in the shape of a dome
Etymologies
- From Inuktitut iglu (ᐃᒡᓗ). (Wiktionary)
- Inuit iglu, house. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“In North America, this latitude can land you in igloo territory.”
“An igloo is a much more comfortable place to sleep.”
“They build in a circle and bevel the edges of the blocks so that the igloo is shaped like a bee-hive.”
“The snow houses they call _iglooweuks_, or houses of snow; the stone and earth shelters are _igloosoaks_, or big igloos, the word igloo, in the”
The Story of Grenfell of the Labrador A Boy's Life of Wilfred T. Grenfell
“There are not so many elements added in the pictures below, so it may not look very friendly to look at at this state, but once all the books, magazines and favourite CDs are on the shelves, this igloo could be a very inviting hideout for someone with a passion for reading.”
“Happily the temperature in the igloo was a balmy -1.5 degrees C.”
“Our igloo was a vacuum which was filling itself up as soon as possible: and when snow was not coming in a fine black moraine dust took its place, covering us and everything.”
“Two men are always required to build a snow igloo, which is one reason for this.”
“At the farther end of the igloo is the bed platform, raised about a foot and a half above the earthen floor.”
The North Pole Its Discovery in 1909 under the auspices of the Peary Arctic Club
“Quintessential Canadian icon or cultural cliché, the igloo is a highly functional winter shelter.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘igloo’.
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Genes
Interesting gene names. Some of these may have changed recently (to something less offensive/funny).
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Realia from Everywhere
Culturally defined terms and expressions from the four corners of the world
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Words that can be spelled on an upsid...
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A Dwelling
house, apartment, condo, flat, cottage, tepee, wigwam, penthouse, cave, castle, mansion, mcmansion and 33 more...
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Schwa-Free
Words of more than one syllable that include no schwas in their pronunciation.
(Note for pedants: some of these words have more than one pronunciation. As long as just one of the possi...decoy, ballet, survey, sashay, argon, lilac, sumac, café, princess, dildo, wordy, flighty and 30 more...
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Words for ice and snow
Environmental Ice and Snow
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sionnach's Words
contumely, fomite, holmgang, poltroon, eleemosynary, obsidian, nugatory, grindcore, felch, recrudescent, pyx, parenteral and 3271 more...
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Favorite Five-Letter Words
Just what it sounds like. My favorites. Five letters.
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Fun Words
Words that have funny meanings or are just fun to say.
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Loan words from Inuktitut
anorak, igloo, kayak, umiak, nasaaq, kabloona, piblokto, nunatak, pingo
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Behr Paint Colors
Names used for Behr Paints in spring of 2008. I'm curious to see if Behr gives the same colors different names in other years, so I've tagged each color with its Behr product number. It turns out t...
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frequent toefl
Words that I do not know or unsure for toefl
appurtenances, aptitude, arbitrary, arboretum, argot, arrears, avocation, avuncular, badger, bait, warden, bane and 428 more...
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barnaby's Words
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bulbous bouffant
words from the classic (and wonderful) radio sketch "Bulbous Bouffant"
bulbous, bouffant, macadamia, galoshes, tuberculosis, gazebo, bus, mukluk, eskimo, beluga, plethora, bamboozle and 7 more...
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Peoples and culture
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Maths lessons well spent
Words that can be spelled on a calculator. "Beghilosz"
boobless, giggle, igloo, goose, egg, gosh, loose, shell, bible, hellhole, hobo, ohio and 21 more...
Tweets
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tbtabby What you use to repair a broken ig. Feb 25, 2009
BrainyBabe Its Inuktitut meaning is "dwelling" in general, not specifically a snowhouse, although that is its meaning in English. Dec 22, 2008