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Dome

//dəʊm// name, noun, verb, slang

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname.
Noun
  1. 1
    A structural element resembling the hollow upper half of a sphere.

    "geodesic dome"

  2. 2
    Alternative form of Dhome. alt-of, alternative

    "To the Domes or out-castes are left the whole of the inferior trades […]"

  3. 3
    a hemispherical roof wordnet
  4. 4
    Anything shaped like an upset bowl, often used as a cover. broadly

    "a cake dome"

  5. 5
    a stadium that has a roof wordnet
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  1. 6
    A person's head. informal

    "Was he in trouble, half a ton of rubble landed on the top of his dome."

  2. 7
    informal terms for a human head wordnet
  3. 8
    head, oral sex slang

    "Put your mouth on a dick, give me Georgia Dome."

  4. 9
    a concave shape whose distinguishing characteristic is that the concavity faces downward wordnet
  5. 10
    A building; a house; an edifice. obsolete, poetic

    "pleasure dome"

  6. 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"

  7. 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.
  8. 13
    A geological feature consisting of symmetrical anticlines that intersect where each one reaches its apex.
  9. 14
    A press stud or snap fastener.
Verb
  1. 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. 2
    To shoot in the head. colloquial, slang, transitive

    "That guy just got domed!"

  3. 3
    To perform fellatio on. US, colloquial, slang, transitive

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

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 3

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.

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