ig·loo
 igloo
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- pronunciation:
- I
glu
- features:
- Word History, Word Explorer
| part of speech: |
noun |
| inflections: |
igloos |
| definition: |
An igloo is a type of home. It is made of blocks of hard snow. Certain people who live in very cold places on earth make igloos to live in or to stay for a while. Sometimes igloos are connected with each other by tunnels and they make a small village.
When it snowed a lot last winter, my friend and I tried to make an igloo. It wasn't like a real igloo, but it was fun to try to make it.
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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."