dome

Borrowed from 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).

• enPR: dōm, IPA^(key): /dəʊm/

• Audio (AU)

  (file)

• Rhymes: -əʊm

dome (plural domes)

1. (architecture) a structural element resembling the hollow upper half of a sphere; a cupola
2. anything shaped like an upset bowl, often used as a cover

   a cake dome

3. (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, Monkey (lyrics), “Let’s Lurk”, 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

4. (slang) head, oral sex
   • 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.

   • 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
   • 1726, Alexander Pope, Odyssey:

     Approach the dome, the social banquet share.

6. 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.
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

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 709322, 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, US, African American Vernacular, colloquial, slang) To perform fellatio on.

• 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]

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

• doom, dom, doim

From Old English dōm, from Proto-Germanic *dōmaz, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰóh₁mos.

• IPA^(key): /doːm/

dome

1. a judgement, (legal) decision or sentence
2. a decision or order
3. a court or trial issuing judgement
4. final judgement after death
5. justice, rulership, authority

• English: doom

• “dọ̄m (n.)” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-03-15.

dome

1. first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of domar
2. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of domar
3. third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of domar
4. third-person singular (você) negative imperative of domar

dome (Cyrillic spelling доме)

1. vocative singular of dom

• IPA^(key): [ˈdome]

dome

1. locative singular of dom

• IPA^(key): /ˈdome/, [ˈd̪ome]

dome

1. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of domar.
2. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of domar.
3. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of domar.
4. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of domar.

dome

1. dative singular of dom