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The definition of a dome is a roof or building shaped in a dome, or is slang for the head.
(noun)- An example of a dome is the New Orleans sports arena, the Superdome.
- An example of a dome is two college buddies talking about what someone hit when he fell down the stairs.
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See dome in Webster's New World College Dictionary
noun
- Old Poet. a mansion or stately building
- a hemispherical roof or one formed by a series of rounded arches or vaults on a round or many-sided base; cupola
- any dome-shaped structure or object; specif., a sports stadium covered with a dome
- Slang the head
- Geol.
- an anticlinal structure of circular or broadly elliptical form
- a type of crystal formation in which two symmetrical faces meet at an angle to form a horizontal ridge
Origin: domesense < L domus, house (< IE *domu- < base *dem-, to build); others < Fr dôme < Prov doma < LL(Ec), roof, building, cathedral < Gr dōma, housetop, house, temple < same IE base: see timber, dominate
intransitive verb
to swell out like a dome
See dome in American Heritage Dictionary 4
noun
- a. A vaulted roof having a circular, polygonal, or elliptical base and a generally hemispherical or semispherical shape.b. A geodesic dome.
- A domelike structure, object, or natural formation.
- Chemistry A form of crystal with two similarly inclined faces that meet at an edge parallel to the horizontal axis.
- Slang The human head.
- Archaic A large, stately building.
- To cover with or as if with a dome.
- To shape like a dome.
To rise or swell into the shape of a dome.
Origin:
Origin: From French dôme, dome, cathedral (from Italian duomo, cathedral, from Latin domus, house; see dem- in Indo-European roots)
Origin: and from French dôme, roof (from Provençal doma, from Greek dōma, house; see dem- in Indo-European roots)
.Related Forms:
- domˈal (dōˈməl) adjective
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