Definitions for igloo

igloo ig·loo

Spelling: [ig-loo]
IPA: /ˈɪg lu/

Igloo is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 35 anagrams from letters in igloo (giloo).

Definitions for igloo

noun

  1. an Eskimo house, being a dome-shaped hut usually built of blocks of hard snow.
  2. Informal. any dome-shaped construction thought to resemble an igloo:
  3. Military. a dome-shaped building for the storage of rockets or other munitions.
  4. an excavation made by a seal in the snow over its breathing hole in the ice.

Origin of igloo

First recorded in 1855-60, igloo is from the Inuit word iglu house

Examples for igloo

Previous snows had found no lodgment into banks, and an igloo could not be built.

In the igloo of the shaman, or medicine man, however, it was different.

I became possessed with the fear that we had passed the igloo.

About two miles from Good Point, we passed the Doctor's igloo.

In their cheerleader personas, the penguins took over the stadium, entering through the igloo.

I helped Mr. Borup build his igloo, for which he was grateful.

He fastened the flag to a staff and planted it firmly on the top of his igloo.

In his corner of the igloo he had ruminated long and earnestly.

We found but one igloo here and I did the "after you my dear Alphonse," and the Doctor got the igloo.

We kept a fire going in one igloo and dried our mittens and kamiks.

Word Value for igloo
Scrable

6

Words with friends

8

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