Definition of igloo in English:
igloo
noun ˈɪɡluːˈɪɡlu
A type of dome-shaped shelter built from blocks of solid snow, traditionally used by Inuits.
as modifier an igloo village- Even with a small air pocket, the warmth of a victim's breath can seal the snow around his mouth much as perspiration seals the inside of an igloo or a snow cave.
- They learnt how to keep it for quite a long time by building ice houses, with a dome, which looked like igloos.
- One was a film about Eskimos building an igloo, which was pretty lousy, because there was a ponderous commentary which tried to tell you that Eskimos live in igloos.
- One scene stands out in particular; it's a songfest held in an igloo where everyone is dressed-up in sparklingly clean white parkas and decked out in their best furs.
- I think his dream home would have been an igloo in northern Nunavat.
- You don't want too much explosive in a single igloo; you want igloos separated by enough open land that an explosion in one will not set off a chain reaction.
- Whenever we need something, Sandy has it - seasonings to spice up our freeze-dried meals, a snow saw for building igloos, binding parts and tools to repair nearly anything that breaks.
- Winter dwellings may have been built from stone blocks like the familiar igloos of more recent times.
- Produced by an Inuit cast and crew, The Fast Runner pays close ethnographic attention to the daily details of Inuit life, from building an igloo to making a sealskin drum.
- Summer housing for many Inuit was a skin tent, while in the winter the igloo, or house made of snow, was common.
- And it's a deep still well, an igloo in the snow and a heretics' church.
- Temporary snow houses were also used, though the legendary igloo was a structure used more by Canadian Inuit.
- In addition, unexpected storms have left hunting parties stranded, and harder packed snow due to recent wind changes makes it more difficult to build igloos for shelter.
- Then he and his wife shovel snow from the igloo's entrance and wriggle inside.
- Played out in peat lodges and ceremonial igloos the Inuit games involved contorting bodies, jumping, kicking and various arm-pulling trials of strength.
- Inuit igloos in the Arctic and felt-covered yurts on the Mongolian steppes, for example, have been used for centuries.
- We could not stop thinking of all the supplies on the other sled, warm caribou skins, a snow knife for making an igloo, fuel for the stove, and other survival gear.
- The stereotypical Eskimo wears a fur parka and lives in an igloo.
- There could have been a set comprising of totems, carvings, teepees, long houses, or igloos.
- Consider the Inuit, otherwise known as Eskimos, sitting in their igloos or caribou hide tents.
Origin
Mid 19th century: from Inuit iglu 'house'.
Eskimo from late 16th century:
The traditional word for the indigenous people inhabiting northern Canada, Alaska, Greenland, and eastern Siberia is Eskimo. The word is from Native American language Algonquian, and may have originally meant ‘people speaking a different language’. It was formerly thought that the original meaning was ‘person who eats raw meat’ and because this was seen as insulting, the word is now avoided by many. The peoples inhabiting the regions from the Canadian Arctic to western Greenland prefer to call themselves Inuit, first recorded in English in the mid 18th century and the plural of inuk ‘person’. There are comparatively few words in English from the Inuit language. Kayak, which came into English in the 18th century, is one of them, and igloo (mid 19th century) from iglu ‘house’, is the most notable other.
Definition of igloo in US English:
igloo
nounˈiɡlo͞oˈɪɡlu
A type of dome-shaped shelter built from blocks of solid snow, traditionally used by Inuits.
as modifier an igloo village- And it's a deep still well, an igloo in the snow and a heretics' church.
- I think his dream home would have been an igloo in northern Nunavat.
- The stereotypical Eskimo wears a fur parka and lives in an igloo.
- Summer housing for many Inuit was a skin tent, while in the winter the igloo, or house made of snow, was common.
- In addition, unexpected storms have left hunting parties stranded, and harder packed snow due to recent wind changes makes it more difficult to build igloos for shelter.
- Winter dwellings may have been built from stone blocks like the familiar igloos of more recent times.
- Consider the Inuit, otherwise known as Eskimos, sitting in their igloos or caribou hide tents.
- Inuit igloos in the Arctic and felt-covered yurts on the Mongolian steppes, for example, have been used for centuries.
- They learnt how to keep it for quite a long time by building ice houses, with a dome, which looked like igloos.
- Whenever we need something, Sandy has it - seasonings to spice up our freeze-dried meals, a snow saw for building igloos, binding parts and tools to repair nearly anything that breaks.
- One scene stands out in particular; it's a songfest held in an igloo where everyone is dressed-up in sparklingly clean white parkas and decked out in their best furs.
- Even with a small air pocket, the warmth of a victim's breath can seal the snow around his mouth much as perspiration seals the inside of an igloo or a snow cave.
- Produced by an Inuit cast and crew, The Fast Runner pays close ethnographic attention to the daily details of Inuit life, from building an igloo to making a sealskin drum.
- We could not stop thinking of all the supplies on the other sled, warm caribou skins, a snow knife for making an igloo, fuel for the stove, and other survival gear.
- You don't want too much explosive in a single igloo; you want igloos separated by enough open land that an explosion in one will not set off a chain reaction.
- Played out in peat lodges and ceremonial igloos the Inuit games involved contorting bodies, jumping, kicking and various arm-pulling trials of strength.
- Then he and his wife shovel snow from the igloo's entrance and wriggle inside.
- One was a film about Eskimos building an igloo, which was pretty lousy, because there was a ponderous commentary which tried to tell you that Eskimos live in igloos.
- There could have been a set comprising of totems, carvings, teepees, long houses, or igloos.
- Temporary snow houses were also used, though the legendary igloo was a structure used more by Canadian Inuit.
Origin
Mid 19th century: from Inuit iglu ‘house’.