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: […] 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

   • 2025 December 12, Nerbit, 6:32 from the start, in Can You Beat Fallout: New Vegas While Easily Distracted?‎^[3], YouTube:

     A wise man once said six bullets is more than enough to kill anything that moves. But unlike that man, I'd rather not spend half the fight slowly reloading while getting domed by enemy gunfire.

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): [ˈdūɔ̄mɛ]

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dõme 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): /dɔme/, [ˈdɔme]
• Rhymes: -ɔme
• Hyphenation: do‧me

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