1
archaic
: a stately building : mansion
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: a large hemispherical roof or ceiling
3
: a natural formation or structure that resembles the dome or cupola of a building
4
: a form of crystal composed of planes parallel to a lateral axis that meet above in a horizontal edge like a roof
5
: an upward fold in rock whose sides dip uniformly in all directions
6
: a roofed sports stadium
7
: a person's head
domed; doming
: to swell upward or outward like a dome
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Examples of dome in a Sentence
Noun
the dome of the Capitol building
The team's new stadium is a dome.
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Jorge L. Ortiz, USA TODAY, 2 Nov. 2024
The white exterior peered at me with flat orifices obscured through the mist, barely distinguishable from the dark sky behind it, as though all the world beyond the dome was cut from the same slab, only slightly effaced.
—Jem Aswad, Variety, 1 Nov. 2024
Julian Chokkattu, WIRED, 6 Oct. 2022
The stem end curves in like a belly button and the blossom end domes out.
—Veronica Bravo, USA TODAY, 17 July 2024
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Noun
Hardin said he got started as a teenager maintaining communication towers and now specializes in restoring old steeples and domes.
—Jorge L. Ortiz, USA TODAY, 2 Nov. 2024
The white exterior peered at me with flat orifices obscured through the mist, barely distinguishable from the dark sky behind it, as though all the world beyond the dome was cut from the same slab, only slightly effaced.
—Jem Aswad, Variety, 1 Nov. 2024
Verb
It's domed and bends the light, not unlike a Junghans Max Bill.
—Julian Chokkattu, WIRED, 6 Oct. 2022
The stem end curves in like a belly button and the blossom end domes out.
—Veronica Bravo, USA TODAY, 17 July 2024
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“Dome.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/dome. Accessed 22 Nov. 2024.
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dome
1 of 2 noun1
: a large rounded roof or ceiling shaped like half of a ball
2
: a structure or natural formation that resembles the dome of a building
rock domes
3
: a roofed sports stadium
dome
2 of 2 verb
domed; doming
1
: to cover with or as if with a dome
2
: to form into or swell upward or outward like a dome
Medical Definition
dome
noun
: a rounded-arch element in the wave tracing in an electroencephalogram
the spike and dome pattern characteristic of absence seizures
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