Meaning

4 senses
  1. A dome-shaped Inuit shelter, constructed of blocks cut from snow.

    Iglu, Schneehaus, Schneehütte

    и́глуíglu

    an Eskimo hut; usually built of blocks (of sod or snow) in the shape of a dome

  2. A cavity, or excavation, made in the snow by a seal, over its breathing hole in the sea ice.

  3. A reinforced bunker for the storage of nuclear weapons.

  4. A kind of airfreight cargo container.

Examples

9 sentences
  1. I'm going to build an igloo.

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  2. I want to build an igloo.

    ruЯ хочу построить иглу.

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  3. Tom built an igloo in his backyard.

    ruТом соорудил у себя на заднем дворе иглу.

    deTom baute im Garten ein Iglu.

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  4. An igloo can't burn down, Tom.

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  5. Jacoba taught me to make survival igloos.

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Translations

8 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
Inuit snow house:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
Inuit snow house:

Origin

From Inuktitut ᐃᒡᓗ (iclo, “house, building (of any kind)”), from Proto-Inuit *ǝɣlu, from P

From Inuktitut ᐃᒡᓗ (iclo, “house, building (of any kind)”), from Proto-Inuit *ǝɣlu, from Proto-Eskimo *ǝŋlu.

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Forms

plural: igloos
Singularigloo
Pluraligloos

regular

Synonyms

1 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • an Eskimo hut; usually built of blocks (of sod or snow) in the shape of a dome:iglu

Word family

12 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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