dome
English
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).
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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)
- 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
- (slang) head, oral sex
- 2005, “Georgia Dome”, performed by Ying Yang Twins:
- Put your mouth on a dick, give me Georgia Dome.
- (obsolete, poetic) a building; a house; an edifice
- 1726, Alexander Pope, Odyssey:
- Approach 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
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Translations
architectural element
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anything shaped like an upset bowl
Verb
dome (third-person singular simple present dom, present participle es, simple past and past participle domed)
- (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 […]
- (transitive, US, African-American Vernacular, colloquial, slang) To perform fellatio on.
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Czech
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Noun
dome
Latvian
Etymology
A late 19th-century borrowing from Russian ду́ма (dúma, “administrative institution”).[1]
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Noun
dome f (5th declension)
- (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)
Derived terms
References
- ^ Karulis, Konstantīns (1992) “doma”, in Latviešu Etimoloģijas Vārdnīca (in Latvian), Rīga: AVOTS, →ISBN
Middle English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Old English dōm, from Proto-Germanic *dōmaz, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰóh₁mos.
Pronunciation
Noun
dome
- a judgement, (legal) decision or sentence
- a decision or order
- a court or trial issuing judgement
- final judgement after death
- justice, rulership, authority
Descendants
- English: doom
References
- “dọ̄m (n.)”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-03-15.
Portuguese
Verb
dome
Serbo-Croatian
Noun
dome (Cyrillic spelling доме)
Slovak
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dome
Spanish
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Verb
dome
- Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of domar.
- First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of domar.
- Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of domar.
- Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present subjunctive form of domar.
Volapük
Noun
dome
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