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cyclorama

cyclorama noun: a panoramic image displayed on the inside of a cylindrical canvas.

Noun

cyclorama (plural cycloramas)

  1. A panoramic image displayed on the inside of a cylindrical canvas.
    • Robert Loo sat, quite content, behind the counter, against a cyclorama of tins of milk and corned beef.1959, Anthony Burgess, Beds in the East (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 461
    Synonyms:
    diorama
  2. (metonymically) A building or room designed to show this image.
  3. A large, often concave, backdrop, hung upstage in a theater.

cyclorama meaning in Tamil and Bengali

cyclorama in Tamil

சுற்றணி காட்சித்தொகுதி, சுற்றுவட்ட அடுக்கணிக்காட்சி, சுற்றணிக் காட்சித்தொகுதி

cyclorama in Bengali

প্রায়শই অবতল, পটভূমি

Synonyms of cyclorama

Forms of cyclorama

pluralcycloramas

Origin of cyclorama

From cyclo- + -rama (as in panorama).

Words formed from cyclorama

Words that rhyme with cyclorama

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Questions about cyclorama

What does cyclorama mean?
Cyclorama means a panoramic image displayed on the inside of a cylindrical canvas.
What is cyclorama in Tamil?
Cyclorama in Tamil is சுற்றணி காட்சித்தொகுதி, சுற்றுவட்ட அடுக்கணிக்காட்சி, சுற்றணிக் காட்சித்தொகுதி. See Cyclorama meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is cyclorama?
Cyclorama is a noun.
What is the plural of cyclorama?
The plural of cyclorama is cycloramas.

Words near cyclorama in the dictionary

  1. cyclopyrrolones
  2. cyclopædia
  3. cyclopædias
  4. cyclopædist
  5. cyclopædiæ
  6. cyclorama
  7. cycloramas
  8. cycloramic
  9. cycloramphid
  10. cycloramphids
  11. cyclorelease

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cyclorama (page history and authors); cyclorama (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); cyclorama (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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