ig·loo
 igloo
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- pronunciation:
- I
glu
- features:
- Word History, Word Explorer
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noun |
| inflections: |
igloos |
| definition: |
a hut, shaped like a dome and made of blocks of ice or hard snow. Igloos are a traditional type of home made by certain groups of people who live in the Arctic regions of the world.
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Igloo is an Inuit (Eskimo) word for "house." To the Inuit people, it may seem that
house is the English word for "igloo."