What does "dome" mean?
A structural element resembling the hollow upper half of a sphere.
Dome
/dəʊm/ name, noun, verb, slang
name, noun, verb, slang ·Common ·High school level
Meaning at a glance
- Primary sense: A structural element resembling the hollow upper half of a sphere.
- Grammar: dome is listed as name, noun, verb, slang.
- Nearest alternatives: noggin, antenna tower, apse, arcade.
- Useful contrasts: earth, expose, feet.
- Usage evidence: Have you ever been to the Tokyo Dome?
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Definitions
Noun
- 1 A structural element resembling the hollow upper half of a sphere.
"geodesic dome"
- 2 Alternative form of Dhome. alt-of, alternative
"To the Domes or out-castes are left the whole of the inferior trades […]"
- 3 a hemispherical roof wordnet
- 4 Anything shaped like an upset bowl, often used as a cover. broadly
"a cake dome"
- 5 a stadium that has a roof wordnet
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- 6 A person's head. informal
"Was he in trouble, half a ton of rubble landed on the top of his dome."
- 7 informal terms for a human head wordnet
- 8 head, oral sex slang
"Put your mouth on a dick, give me Georgia Dome."
- 9 a concave shape whose distinguishing characteristic is that the concavity faces downward wordnet
- 10 A building; a house; an edifice. obsolete, poetic
"pleasure dome"
- 11 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. broadly
"steam dome"
- 12 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.
- 13 A geological feature consisting of symmetrical anticlines that intersect where each one reaches its apex.
- 14 A press stud or snap fastener.
Verb
- 1 To give a domed shape to. transitive
"The green and laughing world he sees, / Waters, and plains, and waving trees, / The skim of birds, and the blue-doming skies, […]"
- 2 To shoot in the head. colloquial, slang, transitive
"That guy just got domed!"
- 3 To perform fellatio on. US, colloquial, slang, transitive
Proper Noun
- 1 A surname.
Example
"Have you ever been to the Tokyo Dome?"
Common questions
What is a synonym for "dome"?
Common synonyms include: noggin, antenna tower, apse, arcade, arcature, arch.
How do you use "dome" in a sentence?
Have you ever been to the Tokyo Dome?
How do you pronounce "dome"?
Pronounced /dəʊm/.
Etymology
Etymology 1
Borrowed from Middle French dome, domme (modern French dôme), from Italian duomo, from Latin domus (ecclesiae) (literally “house (of the church)”), a calque of Ancient Greek οἶκος τῆς ἐκκλησίας (oîkos tês ekklēsías). Doublet of domus and duomo.
Etymology 2
Various origins: * English occupational surname for a judge, from Old English dēma (“judge”). * Borrowed from French Dome, a habitational surname. * Borrowed from Hungarian Döme, a hypocoristic form of the personal name Demeter.