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Rotunda

//ɹoʊˈtʌndə// name, noun

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Proper Noun

1
The United States Capitol rotunda.
"No African-Americans have lain in state in the Rotunda, and only two have lain there in honor: Mrs. Parks in 2005 and Officer Jacob Joseph Chestnut, a Capitol Police officer killed in the line of duty, in 1998."

Noun

1
A round building, usually small, often with a dome.
"The rotunda begun but never completed by Abbot Wulfric (1047–59) at St Augustine’s Abbey as a link between the church of St Mary and that of St Peter and St Paul is an unusual and ambitious example of mid-eleventh-century English architecture which partly survives (fig. 4.6, top). […] Many of these rotundae are known to have had a special funerary function (as was the case at Canterbury)."
2
a large circular room wordnet
3
A Gothic typeface used in early printed books in Northern Italy, based on a rounded script developed in the 13th cent.; the manuscript hand on which this typeface was based.
4
a building having a circular plan and a dome wordnet
5
Alternative spelling of rotonda. Philippines, alt-of, alternative
"TPLEX Rotunda is a roundabout located in Rosario, La Union."

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6
A form of cupola that has pentagons rather than squares or rectangles.

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin rotunda, from rotundus (“round”). In the architectural sense, from Sancta Maria Rotunda (the name for a church in the Pantheon).

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