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
transitive verb domed, doming
- to cover with or as with a dome
- to form into a dome