dome in English dictionary

  • dome

    Meanings and definitions of "dome"

    • A common structural element of architecture that resembles the hollow upper half of a sphere.
    • Anything shaped like an upset bowl, often used as a cover, e.g. a cake dome.
    • Slang for head
    • noun
      (architecture)
      A structural element resembling the hollow upper half of a sphere; a cupola.
    • noun
      Anything shaped like an upset bowl, often used as a cover.
    • noun
      (slang)
      head (including the meaning 'oral sex')
    • noun
      (obsolete, poetic)
      A building; a house; an edifice.
    • noun
      Any erection resembling the dome or cupola of a building, such as the upper part of a furnace, the vertical steam chamber on the top of a boiler, etc.
    • noun
      (crystallography)
      A prism formed by planes parallel to a lateral axis which meet above in a horizontal edge, like the roof of a house; also, one of the planes of such a form.
    • verb
      (transitive)
      To give a domed shape to.
    • Common structural element of architecture that resembles the hollow upper half of a sphere.
    • architectural element
    • anything shaped like an upset bowl
    • noun
      a concave shape whose distinguishing characteristic is that the concavity faces downward
    • noun
      a hemispherical roof
    • noun
      a stadium that has a roof
    • noun
      informal terms for a human head

    Synonyms of "dome" in English dictionary

    covered stadium, stadium, concavity are the top synonyms of "dome" in the English thesaurus.

    Grammar and declension of dome

    • dome ( plural  domes)
    • dome (plural domes)
    • dome (third-person singular simple present domes, present participle doming, simple past and past participle domed)
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