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Iglu

Definition: Iglu

Iglu

Noun

1. An Eskimo hut; usually built of blocks (of sod or snow) in the shape of a dome.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

"Iglu" is a common misspelling or typo for: igloo.

Synonym: Iglu

Synonym: igloo (n). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Iglu

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Abode

Cot, cabin, hut, chalet, croft, shed, booth, stall, hovel, bothy, shanty, dugout, wigwam; pen; (inclosure); barn, bawn; kennel, sty, doghold, cote, coop, hutch, byre; cow house, cow shed; stable, dovecote, columbary, columbarium; shippen; igloo, iglu, jacal; lacustrine dwelling, lacuslake dwelling, lacuspile dwelling; log cabin, log house; shack, shebang, tepee, topek.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Iglu

Non-English Usage: "Iglu" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

German (igloo), Portuguese (igloo).

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Iglu

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

iglu

8

iglu sport

3
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Iglu

Language Translations for "iglu"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Farsi 

  

کلبه اسکیموها (Igloo). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

igluay.(various references)

   

Turkish

  

eskimo kulübesi (igloo). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: Iglu

Derivations

Words beginning with "iglu": iglus. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Iglu

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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "g-i-l-u"

-1 letter: gul, lug.

-2 letters: li.

 Words containing the letters "g-i-l-u"
 

+1 letter: guild, guile, guilt, iglus, lungi.

 

+2 letters: bluing, cluing, fulgid, gluier, gluily, gluing, glutei, guilds, guiled, guiles, guilts, guilty, ingulf, ligula, ligule, ligure, lingua, lubing, luggie, luging, lungis, lungyi, luring, luting, muling, nilgau, puling, reguli, ruling, sluing, uglier, uglies, uglify, uglily.

 

+3 letters: beguile, billbug, blueing, bluings, bluming, bugling, bulgier, bulging, bulking, bulling, burling, butling, cingula, clueing, culling, culming, curling, divulge, dueling, dulling, eluding, eluting, eulogia, figural, fluking, fluming, fluting, fluxing, fouling, fueling, fuggily, fugling, fulling, furling, gainful, gallium, gaudily, gauzily, ghoulie, glueing, gluiest, goutily, guilder, guiling, gulfier, gulfing, gullied, gullies, gulling, gulpier, gulping, gumboil, gumlike, gushily, gustily, gutlike, gutsily, guyline, hauling, hulking, hulling, hurling, indulge, ingulfs, languid, lauding, legumin, ligulae, ligular, ligulas, ligules, ligures, linguae, lingual, liturgy, louping, louring, lousing, louting, lucking, luffing, lugeing, luggies, lugging, lugsail, lulling, lumping, lunging, lungyis, lunting, lurking, lushing, lusting, lutings, mauling, muggily, mulling, nilgaus, nilghau, nulling, nurling, pluming, pudgily, pulings, pulling, pulping, pulsing, purling, ruglike, rulings, sulking, ugliest, unagile, unsling, upfling, uplight, valuing, virgule, wauling.

 

+4 letters: aguelike, aguishly, aiguille, alluding, alluring, avulsing, baulking, beguiled, beguiler, beguiles, billbugs, blousing, blubbing, bluegill, blueings, bluffing, blunging, blunting, blurbing, blurring, blurting, blushing, bubbling, buckling, building, bulgiest, bullring, bullying, bumbling, bundling, bungling, burbling, burgling, bustling, calquing, caulking, cingulum, cliquing, clouding, clouring, clouting, clubbing, clucking, clumping, clunking, coupling, cuddling, cullying, cultigen, cupeling, curdling, curlings, cuttling, deluding, deluging, dialogue, diluting, dirgeful, divulged, divulger, divulges, doubling, duckling, duelling, dumpling, dunghill, epilogue, equaling, eulogiae, eulogias, eulogies, eulogise, eulogist, eulogium, eulogize, exulting, faulting, feruling, figuline, fireplug, flouring, flouting, flubbing, fluffing, flumping, flunking, flushing, flutings, foulings, fuddling, fuelling, fumbling, fumingly, fungible, galliums, ghoulies, ghoulish, globulin, glorious, glouting, glucinic, glucinum, glucosic, gluelike, glugging, glumpier, glumpily, glutelin, glutting, grubbily, grueling, gruffily, grumpily, guaiacol, guerilla, guggling, guidable, guilders, guileful, guiltier, guiltily, gulfiest, gulflike, gullible, gullibly, gullying, gulosity, gulpiest, gumboils, gumbotil, gunflint, gurgling, guttling, guylines, guzzling, huddling, hulloing, humbling, hungrily, hurdling, hurlings, hurtling, hustling, illuming, indulged, indulger, indulges, infrugal, inguinal, ingulfed, isologue, juggling, jumbling, junglier, justling, knurling, languish, laughing, leaguing, legumins, ligature, lightful, ligneous, ligulate, liguloid, linguals, linguine, linguini, linguist, liturgic, lounging, lugsails, lunching, lungfish, lurching, lustring, luxating, maculing, miauling, moulding, moulting, mucilage, muddling, muffling, mulching, mulcting, mulligan, multiage, mumbling, muscling, musingly, muzzling, nilghaus, nonguilt, nursling, nuzzling, oliguria, outlying, plaguily, plaguing, plucking, plugging, plumbing, plumping, plunging, plunking, puddling, pugilism, pugilist, pulingly, pungling, pupilage, purfling, purpling, puzzling, quailing, quelling, quilling, quilting, quisling, regluing, reguline, reluming, rightful, rubbling, ruckling, ruddling, ruffling, rumbling, rumpling, runkling, rustling, saluting, sculking, sculling, sculping, shauling, singular, skulking, slubbing, sludgier, sluffing, slugging, sluggish, sluicing, slumming, slumping, slurping, slurring, slushing, smudgily, squiggle, squiggly, squilgee, suckling, sullying, sunlight, suppling, surgical, tousling, touzling, tumbling, turgidly, turtling, tussling, uglified, uglifier, uglifies, ugliness, ulcering, ungainly, ungenial, ungluing, unialgal, unkingly, unlacing, unlading, unlaying, unliving, unloving, unmingle, unpiling, unslings, upflings, uplights, uppiling, urgingly, urologic, vaulting, veluring, virgules, voluming.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Iglu


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

49 67 6C 75

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

..    --.    .-..    ..-

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001001 01100111 01101100 01110101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#73 &#103 &#108 &#117

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0049 0067 006C 0075

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

43737887

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Expressions: Internet
5. Translations: Modern
6. Derivations
7. Anagrams
8. Orthography
9. Bibliography


  

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