igloo

 Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++朗文当代英语 5++LDOCE 5++朗文 5++ldoce_168_aig·loo /ˈɪɡluː/ noun [countable]  TTBHOMEa house made from blocks of hard snow or ice 冰屋 →5  See picture of IGLOO 冰屋

Examples from the Corpus

igloo• They had served a cake, so big you could walk inside it, shaped like an igloo.• The second shape comes out of the first like the extension of an igloo.• The house was lit like a Christmas tree and shaped like a gigantic igloo.• You should now have something resembling a small square igloo.• The Krallerhof has several bars: the Kralleralm, two cocktail bars, and the igloo bar.• Better to tear down the igloo and try to get a refund on the bricks.• And that's just the igloo on the iceberg.• The Kabari huddled against it in their woolen shawls, like Inuit outside their igloos.Origin igloo (1800-1900) Inuit iglu “house”

ig·loo nounChineseSyllable  

ice made blocks of a snow house hard Corpus or from

igloo
ig‧loo /ˈɪɡluː/ noun [countable]a house made from blocks of hard snow or ice

iglooBrE /ˈɪɡluː/ 🔊NAmE /ˈɪɡluː/ 🔊 noun (

plural

igloos) a small round house or shelter built from blocks of hard snow by the Inuit people of northern N America （北美北部因纽特人的拱形圆顶）冰屋