dome
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3.4
- noun
- /doʊm/
:
cúpula
- The huge dome that you see behind me... is called the containment and houses the nuclear fuel.
- dome-shaped
- golden dome
- capitol dome
You get to talk like this in the Dome of a planetarium.
- You get to talk like this in the Dome of a planetarium.
- Peaks and and ridges give strength to the Dome.
- Protect yourself with the Dome, if you know what I'm saying.
- That's the Dome then, you know, it says it's a Dome, I know what you doing.
Examples
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The Dome of the Pantheon had the largest diameter of any Dome up to this point.
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The brassy blue sky of Provence was a huge dome radiating sunlight and heat.
Fiction book (1991) -
The bedroom is under a glass dome at the bottom of the ocean.
Fiction book (1990) -
I wanted to spend the entire night sitting outside the dome, watching it go by.
Academic text (1993) -
Covered by a beautiful dome sky... it seemed to me that when I was a child, it was the centre of the universe.
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The town within was visible through a dome only slightly fogged in a few spots.
Fiction book (1991) -
Across the square known as the Augustaeon rose the Dome of Hagia Sophia.
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Sunlight streams through the Oculus and overhead the rosettes in the Dome sparkle like stars.
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My friends and I toasted the view, overlooking the Kremlin, its golden domes gleaming in the late evening sunset.
Academic text (2008) -
The magnificent dome of St. Peter's Basilica is an architectural masterpiece.
Synonyms
3
8.7
A small dome roof on top of a building
1
3.9
A curved cover of glass that protects things and lets light in
1
6.4
A round roof on top of a building that holds a telescope for looking at the sky or surrounding area
1
8.6
A dome shaped like a bulb often found on Russian churches
1
5.5
A rounded cover that protects a radar antenna and lets radio waves pass
A curved roof or ceiling that covers a small space like an altar
A roof or lid with a rounded top
A dome on a building that can open and close using a machine
A dome-shaped building with higher air pressure inside than outside
Compounds
- Specialized
2
7.8
A strong, light building shaped like part of a ball made from many triangles
- Jargon
1
6.4
A round roof on top of a building that holds a telescope for looking at the sky or surrounding area
1
7.9
A large United States political corruption case in the early 1920s where government officials secretly leased oil land to companies
- Specialized
1
5.5
A rounded cover that protects a radar antenna and lets radio waves pass
- US
1
9.9
A 1920s US political scandal about secretly giving oil fields to private companies
- Specialized
A space under a dome where a soft sound made in one spot reaches another spot clearly
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Etymology
The word dome comes from the Latin domus meaning 'house' and the Italian duomo meaning 'cathedral', a 'house' of worship that often has a round roof. So dome came to mean the rounded or half‑sphere roof you see on churches and big buildings.