dome

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.

• enPR: dōm, IPA^(key): /dəʊm/

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• Rhymes: -əʊm

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^[2]:

     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, “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

   • 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.

4. (slang) head, oral sex

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:oral sex

   • 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.
9. (sewing) A press stud or snap fastener.

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!

   • 2014, “Talk Shit, Get Shot”, in Ice-T (lyrics), Ernie C, Ice-T, Vincent Price, Will Putney (music), Manslaughter, performed by Body Count:

     You can get hit with the fifth / Twisted with the biscuit / Blasted with the ratchet / Jacked with the MAC / Bodied with the shotty / Dumped with the pump / Rocked with the Glock / Sprayed with the 'K / Domed with the chrome

3. (transitive, US, African-American Vernacular, colloquial, slang) To perform fellatio on.

• dome on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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

• IPA^(key): [ˈdomɛ]

dome

1. vocative singular of dům

A late 19th-century borrowing from Russian ду́ма (dúma, “administrative institution”).^[1]

• IPA^(key): [dūōmɛ]

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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)

• padome

dome

1. alternative form of doom

dome

1. mutated form of tome (“guest”)

• IPA^(key): /ˈdoː.me/

dōme

1. dative singular of dōm

• Hyphenation: do‧me

dome

1. inflection of domar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

dome (Cyrillic spelling доме)

1. vocative singular of dom

• IPA^(key): [ˈdɔme]

dome

1. locative singular of dom

• IPA^(key): /ˈdome/ [ˈd̪o.me]
• Rhymes: -ome
• Syllabification: do‧me

dome

1. inflection of domar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

dome

1. dative singular of dom