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Webster 1913 Edition

Dome

Dome

,
Noun.
[F.
dôme
, It.
duomo
, fr. L.
domus
a house,
domus Dei
or
Domini
, house of the Lord, house of God; akin to Gr. [GREEK] house, [GREEK] to build, and E.
timber
. See
Timber
.]
1.
A building; a house; an edifice; – used chiefly in poetry.
Approach the
dome
, the social banquet share.
Pope.
2.
(Arch.)
A cupola formed on a large scale.
☞ “The Italians apply the term il duomo to the principal church of a city, and the Germans call every cathedral church Dom; and it is supposed that the word in its present English sense has crept into use from the circumstance of such buildings being frequently surmounted by a cupola.”
Am. Cyc.
3.
Any erection resembling the dome or cupola of a building; as the upper part of a furnace, the vertical steam chamber on the top of a boiler, etc.
4.
(Crystallog.)
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.
☞ If the plane is parallel to the longer diagonal (macrodiagonal) of the prism, it is called a macrodome; if parallel to the shorter (brachydiagonal), it is a brachydome; if parallel to the inclined diagonal in a monoclinic crystal, it is called a clinodome; if parallel to the orthodiagonal axis, an orthodome.
Dana.

Dome

,
Noun.
[See
Doom
.]
Decision; judgment; opinion; a court decision.
[Obs.]
Chaucer.

Webster 1828 Edition

Dome

DOME

,
Noun.
[Gr., a house, a plain roof. L.]
1.
A building; a house; a fabric; used in poetry.
2.
A cathedral.
3.
In architecture, a spherical roof, raised over the middle of a building; a cupola.
4.
In chemistry, the upper part of a furnace, resembling a hollow hemisphere or small dome. This form serves to reflect or reverberate a part of the flame; hence these furnaces are called reverberating furnaces.

Definition 2025

Dome

Dome

See also: dome, domé, dôme, and domē

German

Noun

Dome m

  1. plural of Dom

dome

dome

See also: Dome, domé, dôme, and domē

English

Noun

dome ‎(plural domes)

  1. (architecture) A structural element resembling the hollow upper half of a sphere; a cupola.
  2. Anything shaped like an upset bowl, often used as a cover.
    a cake dome
  3. (slang) head (including the meaning 'oral sex')
    • Was he in trouble, half a ton of rubble landed on the top of his dome. - Myles Rudge, "Right Said Fred"
    • I got 5 Georgia homes where I rest my Georgia bones, Come anywhere on my land and I'll aim at your Georgia dome.- Ludacris
    • Put your mouth on a dick, give me Georgia Dome -- Ying Yang Twins, "Georgia Dome"
  4. (obsolete, poetic) A building; a house; an edifice.
    • Alexander Pope
      Approach the dome, the social banquet share.
  5. 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.
  6. (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.

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

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

  1. (transitive) To give a domed shape to.
    • 1907, Joseph Barrell, Geology of the Marysville mining district, Montana (page 24)
      […] the general effect being to dome the cover upward at least 1,000 and probably 2,000 feet, and to metamorphose the limy sediments into hornstones […]

Anagrams

Latvian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [dūōmɛ]

Etymology

A late 19th-century borrowing from Russian administrative institution ‎(administrative institution).[1]

Noun

dome f (5th declension)

  1. (often plural) council (legislative or administrative organ)
    pilsētas dome, domes‎ ― city council
    domes vēlēšanas‎ ― city council elections
    Valsts Dome(s)‎ ― State Duma (Russian Legislative Body)

Declension

Derived terms

  • padome

References

  1. ↑ Karulis, Konstantīns (1992), “doma”, in Latviešu Etimoloģijas Vārdnīca (in Latvian), Rīga: AVOTS, ISBN 9984-700-12-7

Portuguese

Verb

dome

  1. first-person singular present subjunctive of domar
  2. third-person singular present subjunctive of domar
  3. third-person singular imperative of domar

Spanish

Verb

dome

  1. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of domar.
  2. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of domar.
  3. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of domar.
  4. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present subjunctive form of domar.

Volapük

Noun

dome

  1. dative singular of dom

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /doːmə/
  • Hyphenation: Do‧me

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