• Dome

    Pronunciation

    • enPR: dōm, IPA: /dəʊm/
    • Rhymes: -əʊm

    Origin

    From French dôme.

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    Noun

    dome

    (plural domes)
    1. (architecture) A structural element resembling the hollow upper half of a sphere; a cupola.
    2. Anything shaped like an upset bowl, often used as a cover.a cake dome
    3. (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"
    4. (obsolete, poetic) A building; a house; an edifice.
      • Alexander PopeApproach the dome, the social banquet share.
    5. 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.
    6. (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.

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