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

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). Doublet of domus and duomo.

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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:
      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.

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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!
    • 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.

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dome

  1. vocative singular of dům

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