igloo
noun
an Inuit house, being a dome-shaped hut usually built of blocks of hard snow.
igloos
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pluralof igloo.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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In colder months, you can also book dinner in one of the restaurant’s outdoor igloos.
From Salon ● Sep. 8, 2026
“Once you walk in, you have no outside noise, no anything, you know, so, I mean, it’s incredibly peaceful,” he said of the igloos.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 26, 2026
In addition, the area included small fire pits, heated igloos, carnival games and food trucks.
From Washington Times ● Dec. 29, 2023
His soldiers learned much from the Inuit, including building igloos, deciphering the meaning of snowdrifts, ice fishing, hunting and butchering caribou — and observing the moon dog and sun dog.
From New York Times ● Jun. 4, 2023
And when the clouds finally shredded themselves and the silvered moon looked down upon Phippsburg again, it looked down upon a town strangely changed, its sheds turned into hills, its woodpiles into igloos.
From "Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy" by Gary D. Schmidt
