igloo
pronunciation
How to pronounce igloo in British English:
UK [ˈɪɡluː]
How to pronounce igloo in American English:
US [ˈɪɡluː]
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- Noun:
- an Eskimo hut; usually built of blocks (of sod or snow) in the shape of a dome
Word Origin
- igloo (n.)
- 1824, Canadian English, from an Eskimo word for "house, dwelling" (compare Greenlandic igdlo "house").
Example
- 1. They looked at the igloo and smiled !
- 2. Moccasin , igloo , they 're aboriginal words from canada .
- 3. None lives in an igloo these days .
- 4. Swedish businessman nile bergqvist is delighted with his new hotel , the world 's first igloo hotel .
- 5. So , the boys covered up the top with a tarp and slept a night inside of the unfinished igloo . There were eight boys used the igloo .