dome

Dome of a building from Paris (sense 1)

Meanings

Noun

  • A structural element resembling the hollow upper half of a sphere.
  • Anything shaped like an upset bowl, often used as a cover.
  • A person's head.
  • head, oral sex
  • A building; a house; an edifice.
  • 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.
  • 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.

Verb

Origin

  • Borrowed from Middle French dome, domme (modern French dôme), from Italian duomo, from Latin domus (ecclesiae), a . domus.

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