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See also:domé,dôme,døme,domē,domě,доме,Dome,Döme,and-döme

English

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Dome of a building from Paris(sense 1)

Etymology

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Borrowed fromMiddle Frenchdome,domme (modernFrenchdôme), fromItalianduomo, fromLatindomus (ecclesiae)(literally“house (of the church)”), acalque ofAncient Greekοἶκοςτῆςἐκκλησίας(oîkos tês ekklēsías).Doublet ofdomus andduomo.

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Noun

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dome (pluraldomes)

  1. (architecture) A structural element resembling the hollow upper half of asphere.
    Synonym:cupola
  2. (by extension) Anything shaped like an upset bowl, often used as a cover.
    a cakedome
    • 2021 June 29, Gabrielle Canon, “Historic heatwave, extreme drought and wildfires plague North American west”, inThe Guardian‎[2]:
      The heatwave, caused by what meteorologists described as adome 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'shead.
    • 1962,Myles Rudge, “Right Said Fred”:
      Was he in trouble, half a ton of rubble landed on the top of hisdome.
    • 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 thedome
    • 2005, “Georgia”, performed byLudacris:
      I got five Georgia homes where I rest my Georgia bones,
      Come anywhere on my land and I'll aim at your Georgiadome.
  4. (slang)head,oral sex
    Synonyms:seeThesaurus:oral sex
    • 2005, “Georgia Dome”, performed by Ying Yang Twins:
      Put your mouth on a dick, give me GeorgiaDome.
  5. (obsolete, poetic) Abuilding; ahouse; anedifice.
    • 1726,Alexander Pope,Odyssey:
      Approach thedome, the social banquet share.
  6. (by extension) Any erection resembling the dome orcupola of a building, such as the upper part of afurnace, the vertical steam chamber on the top of a boiler, etc.
  7. (crystallography) Aprism formed byplanesparallel to alateralaxis which meet above in ahorizontal edge, like the roof of a house; also, one of the planes of such a form.
  8. (geology) A geological feature consisting ofsymmetricalanticlines thatintersect where each one reaches itsapex.
  9. (sewing) A press stud or snap fastener.

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Translations

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architectural element
anything shaped like an upset bowl
geological feature
a press stud or snap fastener used instead of buttons on clothing

Verb

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dome (third-person singular simple presentdomes,present participledoming,simple past and past participledomed)

  1. (transitive) To give adomedshape to.
    • 1814,Leigh Hunt, “Ode for the Spring of 1814”, inThe Descent of Liberty, a Mask, London: Printed for Gale, Curtis, and Fenner, […], published1815,→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, page24:
      […] the general effect being todome the cover upward at least 1,000 and probably 2,000 feet, and to metamorphose the limy sediments into hornstones[…]
  2. (transitive, colloquial, slang) Toshoot in thehead.
    That guy just gotdomed!
    • 2014, “Talk Shit, Get Shot”, inIce-T (lyrics),Ernie C, Ice-T, Vincent Price, Will Putney (music),Manslaughter, performed byBody 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) Toperformfellatio on.

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Czech

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Noun

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dome

  1. vocativesingular ofdům

Latvian

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Etymology

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A late 19th-century borrowing fromRussianду́ма(dúma,“administrative institution”).[1]

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Noun

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dõme f (5th declension)

  1. (often plural)council(legislative oradministrativeorgan)
    pilsētasdome,domes ―citycouncil
    domes vēlēšanas ―citycouncil elections
    ValstsDome(s) ―State Duma (Russian Legislative Body)

Declension

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Declension ofdome (5th)
singular
(vienskaitlis)		plural
(daudzskaitlis)
nominativedomedomes
genitivedomesdomju
dativedomeidomēm
accusativedomidomes
instrumentaldomidomēm
locativedomēdomēs
vocativedomedomes

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References

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  1. ^Karulis, Konstantīns (1992), “doma”, inLatviešu Etimoloģijas Vārdnīca [Latvian Etymological Dictionary]‎[1] (in Latvian), Rīga: AVOTS,→ISBN

Middle English

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Noun

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dome

  1. alternative form ofdoom

Nias

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Noun

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dome

  1. mutated form oftome(“guest”)

Old English

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dōme

  1. dativesingular ofdōm

Portuguese

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Pronunciation

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  • Hyphenation:do‧me

Verb

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dome

  1. inflection ofdomar:
    1. first/third-personsingularpresentsubjunctive
    2. third-personsingularimperative

Serbo-Croatian

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Noun

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dome (Cyrillic spellingдоме)

  1. vocativesingular ofdom

Slovak

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dome

  1. locativesingular ofdom

Spanish

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Pronunciation

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

Verb

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dome

  1. inflection ofdomar:
    1. first/third-personsingularpresentsubjunctive
    2. third-personsingularimperative

Volapük

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Noun

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dome

  1. dativesingular ofdom
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