dome

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^[1]:

     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

• cheese dome
• chrome dome
• chrome-dome
• Clingmans Dome
• dome car
• domeless
• dome light
• dome piece
• dome-shaped
• double-dome
• enormodome‎‎
• geodesic dome
• give dome
• lava dome
• mud dome
• Norton's dome
• off the top of one's dome
• onion dome
• pleasure dome
• radar dome
• salt dome
• sand dome
• steam dome

 

Translations

architectural element

• Arabic: قُبَّة f (qubba)
• Armenian: գմբեթ (hy) (gmbetʻ)
• Azerbaijani: günbəz (az), qübbə (az)
• Bashkir: көмбәҙ (kömbəź)
• Basque: kupula
• Belarusian: купал m (kupal)
• Bulgarian: ку́пол (bg) m (kúpol), свод m (svod)
• Catalan: cúpula (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 圓屋頂／圆屋顶 (yuánwūdǐng), 拱頂／拱顶 (zh) (gǒngdǐng)

• Coptic: ⲕⲉⲡⲓⲧⲱ f (kepitō)
• Czech: kupole (cs) f, kopule (cs) f
• Danish: kuppel (da) c
• Dutch: koepel (nl) m
• Esperanto: kupolo
• Estonian: kuppel
• Finnish: kupoli (fi)
• French: dôme (fr) m
• Galician: ciborio m, cimorro m, bóveda (gl) f
• Georgian: გუმბათი (gumbati)
• German: (architectural) Kuppel (de) f, (of ice etc.) Schild (de) m

  Alemannic German: Chupple f

• Greek: θόλος (el) m (thólos), τρούλος (el) m (troúlos)

  Ancient: θόλος m (thólos)

• Hebrew: כִּפָּה (he) f (kippá)
• Hungarian: kupola (hu)
• Icelandic: hvolfþak (is) m
• Ido: kupolo (io)
• Indonesian: kubah (id)
• Interlingua: cupola
• Italian: (of a church, observatory etc) cupola (it) m, (technical) duomo (it) m
• Japanese: 円屋根 (まるやね, maruyane), 円蓋 (ja) (えんがい, engai), 天蓋 (ja) (てんがい, tengai), ドーム (dōmu)
• Korean: 돔 (ko) (dom)
• Latin: tholus m
• Latvian: kupols m
• Lithuanian: kupolas (lt) m
• Malay: kubah (ms)
• Maori: koropuku, tuanui koropuku
• Ngazidja Comorian: kuɓa
• Nogai: куьмбез (kümbez)
• Norwegian: kuppel m
• Ottoman Turkish: قبه (kubbe), طارم (tarem)
• Persian: گنبد (fa) (gonbad)
• Plautdietsch: Doom m
• Polish: kopuła (pl) f
• Portuguese: domo (pt) m, cúpula (pt) f, zimbório m
• Romanian: cupolă (ro) f, dom (ro) n
• Russian: ку́пол (ru) m (kúpol), (vault, arch) свод (ru) m (svod)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: купола f

  Roman: kupola (sh) f

• Slovak: kupola f
• Slovene: kupola (sl) f
• Spanish: cúpula (es) f, domo (es) m
• Swahili: kuba class 9/10
• Swedish: kupol (sv) c
• Tagalog: bobida, bobeda, kupola
• Thai: โดม (th) (doom)
• Turkish: kubbe (tr), kümbet (tr)
• Ukrainian: ку́пол (uk) m (kúpol), верх m (verx)
• Vietnamese: mái vòm
• Volapük: leglöpot
• Zazaki: ban (diq), qubbe

anything shaped like an upset bowl

• Bulgarian: кубе n (kube)
• Esperanto: kupolo
• Finnish: kupu (fi)
• Interlingua: cupola
• Ottoman Turkish: قبه (kubbe), طارم (tarem)
• Russian: (vault) свод (ru) m (svod), (conical hat) колпа́к (ru) m (kolpák)
• Turkish: kubbe (tr)

geological feature

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 穹丘 (zh) (qióngqiū)

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.

Further reading

• dome on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• E.D. Mo., Edom, Medo-, demo, demo-, mode

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈdomɛ]

Noun

dome

1. vocative singular of dům

Latvian

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [dūōmɛ]

(file)

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

• padome

Middle English

Noun

dome

1. Alternative form of doom

Nias

Noun

dome

1. mutated form of tome (“guest”)

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈdõ.mi/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈdõ.mi/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈdo.me/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈdɔ.mɨ/

• 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

• IPA^(key): [ˈdɔme]

Noun

dome

1. locative singular of dom

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdome/ [ˈd̪o.me]
• 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