dome

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See also: domé, dôme, døme, domē, domě, доме, Dome, Döme, and -döme

English

Dome of a building from Paris (sense 1)

Etymology

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.

Pronunciation

  • enPR: dōm, IPA(key): /dəʊm/
  • Audio (AU)(file)
  • Rhymes: -əʊm

Noun

dome (plural domes)

  1. (architecture) A structural element resembling the hollow upper half of a sphere.
    Synonym: cupola
    geodesic dome
  2. (by extension) Anything shaped like an upset bowl, often used as a cover.
    a cake dome
    lava dome
    • 2021 June 29, Gabrielle Canon, “Historic heatwave, extreme drought and wildfires plague North American west”, in The Guardian‎:
      The heatwave, caused by what meteorologists described as a dome of high pressure, extends from California up through areas in Canada’s Arctic territories and was worsened by the human-caused climate crisis.
  3. (informal) A person's head.
    • 1962, Myles Rudge (lyrics and music), “Right Said Fred”:
      Was he in trouble, half a ton of rubble landed on the top of his dome.
    • 2016, “Let’s Lurk”, Monkey (lyrics), performed by 67 ft Giggs:
      Trapping ain't dead, the nitty still clucking and ringing my phone
      Chilling with bro, talking ’bout money, dough to the dome
  4. (slang) head, oral sex
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:oral sex
    • 2005, “Georgia”, performed by Ludacris:
      I got five Georgia homes where I rest my Georgia bones,
      Come anywhere on my land and I'll aim at your Georgia dome.
    • 2005, “Georgia Dome”, performed by Ying Yang Twins:
      Put your mouth on a dick, give me Georgia Dome.
  5. (obsolete, poetic) A building; a house; an edifice.
    pleasure dome
    • 1726, Alexander Pope, Odyssey:
      Approach the dome, the social banquet share.
  6. (by extension) 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
  7. (crystallography) 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. (geology) A geological feature consisting of symmetrical anticlines that intersect where each one reaches its apex.

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

dome (third-person singular simple present domes, present participle doming, simple past and past participle domed)

  1. (transitive) To give a domed shape to.
    • 1814, Leigh Hunt, “Ode for the Spring of 1814”, in The Descent of Liberty, a Mask, London: Printed for Gale, Curtis, and Fenner, , published 1815, →OCLC, page lix:
      The green and laughing world he sees, / Waters, and plains, and waving trees, / The skim of birds, and the blue-doming skies, […]
    • 1907, Joseph Barrell, Geology of the Marysville Mining District, Montana, page 24:
      […] 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 […]
  2. (transitive, colloquial, slang) To shoot in the head.
    That guy just got domed!
  3. (transitive, US, African-American Vernacular, colloquial, slang) To perform fellatio on.

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Anagrams

Czech

Pronunciation

Noun

dome

  1. vocative singular of dům

Latvian

Etymology

A late 19th-century borrowing from Russian ду́ма (dúma, “administrative institution”).

Pronunciation

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Noun

dome f (5th declension)

  1. (often plural) council (legislative or administrative organ)
    pilsētas dome, domes ― city council
    domes vēlēšanas ― city council elections
    Valsts Dome(s) ― State Duma (Russian Legislative Body)

Declension

Declension of dome (5th declension)
singular (vienskaitlis) plural (daudzskaitlis)
nominative (nominatīvs) dome domes
accusative (akuzatīvs) domi domes
genitive (ģenitīvs) domes domju
dative (datīvs) domei domēm
instrumental (instrumentālis) domi domēm
locative (lokatīvs) domē domēs
vocative (vokatīvs) dome domes

Derived terms

References

  1. ^ Karulis, Konstantīns (1992) “doma”, in Latviešu Etimoloģijas Vārdnīca (in Latvian), Rīga: AVOTS, →ISBN

Middle English

Noun

dome

  1. Alternative form of doom

Nias

Noun

dome

  1. mutated form of tome (“guest”)

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

  • Hyphenation: do‧me

Verb

dome

  1. inflection of domar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative

Serbo-Croatian

Noun

dome (Cyrillic spelling доме)

  1. vocative singular of dom

Slovak

Pronunciation

Noun

dome

  1. locative singular of dom

Spanish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈdome/
  • Rhymes: -ome
  • Syllabification: do‧me

Verb

dome

  1. inflection of domar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative

Volapük

Noun

dome

  1. dative singular of dom
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