Pronunciation Noun
dome (plural domes)
- (architecture) a structural element resembling the hollow upper half of a sphere; a cupola
- anything shaped like an upset bowl, often used as a cover
- a cake dome
- (slang) head uppermost part of one's body
- (slang) head, oral sex
- (obsolete, poetic) 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.
- (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
- French: dôme
- German: (architectural) Kuppel, (of ice etc.) Schild
- Italian: (of a church, observatory etc) cupola, (technical) duomo
- Portuguese: domo, cúpula, zimbório
- Russian: ку́пол
- Spanish: cúpula, domo
- Russian: (vault) свод
dome (domes, present participle doming; past and past participle domed)
- (transitive) To give a domed#Adjective|domed shape#Noun|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 709322 ↗, page lix ↗:
- The green and laughing world he sees, / Waters, and plains, and waving trees, / The skim of birds, and the blue-doming skies, {{...}
- (transitive, US, AAVE, colloquial, slang) To perform fellatio on.
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