igloo

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A dome-shaped Inuit shelter, constructed of blocks cut from snow.
  2. A cavity, or excavation, made in the snow by a seal, over its breathing hole in the sea ice.
  3. A reinforced bunker for the storage of nuclear weapons.
    — General James Walsh signalled Strategic Air Command that the B-47 tore apart the igloo and knocked about 3 mark sixes.
  4. A kind of airfreight cargo container.
    — Since most major airlines have interline agreements, if your cargo is in an igloo or container, it can be moved as is […]

词形变化

igloos plural

词汇关系

衍生词
iglooless igloolike pigloo twigloo
相关词
twigloo quinzhee snow fort

词源

Etymology tree
Proto-Eskimo *ǝŋlu
Proto-Inuit *ǝɣlu
Inuktitut ᐃᒡᓗ (iclo)bor.
English igloo
From Inuktitut ᐃᒡᓗ (iclo, “house, building (of any kind)”), from Proto-Inuit *ǝɣlu, from Proto-Eskimo *ǝŋlu.
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