dome
/dəʊm/
dome noun: a structural element resembling the hollow upper half of a sphere.
Noun (1)
dome (plural domes)
- A structural element resembling the hollow upper half of a sphere.
- geodesic dome
- Synonyms:
- cupola
- Anything shaped like an upset bowl, often used as a cover.
- a cake dome
- lava dome
- A person's head.
- Was he in trouble, half a ton of rubble landed on the top of his dome.1962, Myles Rudge, “Right Said Fred”
- Trapping ain't dead, the nitty still clucking and ringing my phone
Chilling with bro, talking ’bout money, dough to the dome2016, “Let’s Lurk”, Monkey (lyrics), performed by 67 ft Giggs
- head, oral sex
- Put your mouth on a dick, give me Georgia Dome.2005, “Georgia Dome”, performed by Ying Yang Twins
- Synonyms:
- brain, head, mouth music, neck, Kirk
- A building; a house; an edifice.
- pleasure dome
- Approach the dome, the social banquet share.1726, Alexander Pope, Odyssey
- 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.
- steam dome
- 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.
- A geological feature consisting of symmetrical anticlines that intersect where each one reaches its apex.
- A press stud or snap fastener.
Verb
dome (third-person singular simple present domes, present participle doming, simple past and past participle domed)
- To give a domed shape to.
- The green and laughing world he sees, / Waters, and plains, and waving trees, / The skim of birds, and the blue-doming skies, […]1814, Leigh Hunt, “Ode for the Spring of 1814”, in The Descent of Liberty, a Mask, London: […] Gale, Curtis, and Fenner, […], published 1815, →OCLC, page lix
- […] the general effect being to dome the cover upward at least 1,000 and probably 2,000 feet, and to metamorphose the limy sediments into hornstones […]1907, Joseph Barrell, Geology of the Marysville Mining District, Montana, page 24
- To shoot or hit in the head.
- That guy just got domed!
- You can get hit with the fifth / Twisted with the biscuit / Blasted with the ratchet / Jacked with the MAC / Bodied with the shotty / Dumped with the pump / Rocked with the Glock / Sprayed with the 'K / Domed with the chrome2014, “Talk Shit, Get Shot”, in Ice-T (lyrics), Ernie C, Ice-T, Vincent Price, Will Putney (music), Manslaughter, performed by Body Count
- To perform fellatio on.
- Synonyms:
- dome up
Noun (2) capitalized: Dome
Dome (plural Domes)
- Alternative form of Dhome.
- To the Domes or out-castes are left the whole of the inferior trades […]1841, East India Company, East India: Slavery, volume 3, page 92
Proper noun capitalized: Dome
Dome (plural Domes)
- A surname.
dome meaning in Malayalam, Gujarati, Odia and Nepali
dome in Malayalam
- താഴികക്കുടം, താഴികക്കുടങ്ങൾ
dome in Gujarati
- ગુંબજ, ગુંબજો, ગુમ્મટ
dome in Odia
- ଗମ୍ବୁଜ
dome in Nepali
- गुम्बज, गुंबद, गुम्बद
More languagesFewer languages
- dome in Tagalog
- bobida, bobeda, kupola
- dome in Arabic
- قُبَّة qubba
- dome in Malay
- kubah
- dome in Indonesian
- kubah
- dome in Persian
- گنبد gonbad
- dome in Thai
- โดม doom
- dome in Vietnamese
- mái vòm
Examples of dome in a sentence
- Lava domes are rarely seen in shield volcanos.
- Each luminarium is an original design. The principal difference between the different luminaria is found in the rendering of the domes and in the layout of the tunnels.
- He admired the domed architecture of traditional dwellings and the forms of canoes.
Synonyms of dome
Forms of dome
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | domes |
| plural | Domes |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | domes |
| present participle | doming |
| past participle | domed |
| past | domed |
| Proper noun | |
| plural | Domes |
Origin of dome
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.
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.
Words formed from dome
- airdome
- astrodome
- biodome
- bonedome
- brachydome
- cheese dome
- chrome-dome
- chrome dome
- Clingmans Dome
- clinodome
- cryptodome
- domal
- dome car
- domeless
- dome light
- domelike
- dome nut
- dome piece
- dome pit
- dome-shaped
- domeshaped
- domic
- domical
- domish
- domophobia
- domy
- double-dome
- doubledome
- endome
- enormodome
- geodesic dome
- geodome
- give dome
- heat dome
- hemidome
- interdome
- Iron Dome
- lava dome
- macrodome
- megadome
- minidome
- mud dome
- myodome
- Norton's dome
- off the dome
- off the top of one's dome
- onion dome
- orthodome
- pleasure dome
- radar dome
- radome
- rotodome
- salt dome
- sand dome
- semidome
- skydome
- snowdome
- soundome
- steam dome
- Thunderdome
Phrases with dome
Words that rhyme with dome
Questions about dome
- What does dome mean?
- Dome means a structural element resembling the hollow upper half of a sphere.
- What is dome in Malayalam?
- Dome in Malayalam is താഴികക്കുടം, താഴികക്കുടങ്ങൾ. See Dome meaning in Malayalam.
- What part of speech is dome?
- Dome can be a noun, a verb or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce dome?
- Dome is pronounced /dəʊm/.
- What is the plural of dome?
- The plural of dome is domes.
Words near dome in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: dome (page history and authors); Dome (page history and authors); dome (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); dome (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); dome (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); dome (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). 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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