Dome
Pronunciation
- enPR: dÅm, IPA: /dəʊm/
- Rhymes: -əʊm
Origin
From French dôme.
Full definition of dome
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 (including the meaning 'oral sex')
- Was he in trouble, half a ton of rubble landed on the top of his dome. - Myles Rudge, "Right Said Fred"
- I got 5 Georgia homes where I rest my Georgia bones, Come anywhere on my land and I'll aim at your Georgia dome.- Ludacris
- Put your mouth on a dick, give me Georgia Dome -- Ying Yang Twins, "Georgia Dome"
- (obsolete, poetic) A building; a house; an edifice.
- Alexander PopeApproach the dome, the social banquet share.
- 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.