domedome /dəʊm $ doʊm/ ●●○ noun [countable] 
Word Origin
a round roof on a building2a shape or building like a ball cut in half
Word OriginWORD ORIGINdome
ExamplesOrigin:
1600-1700 French dôme ‘dome, cathedral’, from Latin domus ‘house’EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
word sets- the dome of his bald head
- As in, if the city of Miami and Dade County build him a new stadium with a retractable dome.
- First, the meteorites crossed the dome traveling at an angle of only twenty-seven degrees to the horizon.
- Higher up the dome became steeper, but by now I'd learned to trust the rock a bit more.
- Operating from a dome on Kitt Peak, Arizona, the Spacewatch team members have achieved numerous firsts.
- Small domes composed of viscous lava may form within craters.
- The other domes cover the crossing, choir and transepts.
- There were several lesser towers, the corner ones with domes.
WORD SETS► Architecture
Collocationsarcade, nounarch, nounarchitect, nounarchitecture, nounatrium, nounbailey, nounbastion, nouncampanile, nouncapital, nouncaryatid, nouncloistered, adjectivecolonial, adjectiveconservationist, nounCorinthian, adjectivecornice, noundolmen, noundome, noundomed, adjectiveDoric, adjectivefloor plan, nounflying buttress, nounfolly, nounGeorgian, adjectiveGothic, adjectiveground plan, nounIonic, adjectivemodernism, nounmonolith, nounmonument, nounmonumental, adjectiveNorman, adjectiveobelisk, nounopen-plan, adjectivepedestal, nounpediment, nounperistyle, nounpitched, adjectiveplinth, nounplot, nounportico, nounquadrangle, nounrambling, adjectiverampart, nounrococo, adjectiveRomanesque, adjectivescreen, nounspan, nounsplit-level, adjectivesquare, nounstonework, nounterrace, nountracery, nountransept, nountruss, nounvaulted, adjectivevaulting, nounvestibule, noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE► central
1· Many churches had four simple gables of equal size one on each face, surmounted by a central dome upon a drum.· This is on concentric, double circle plan, with central dome and sloping outer roofs.· Inside the church, where the lighting is subdued but not dim, the central dome is supported on eight piers.· Inside, the central dome rises nearly 100 feet above the cathedral floor.· Inside, the nave vaults are octagonal domical shape and the central dome is carried on pseudo-pendentives rather like squinches.· It is a double-aisled church and has a central dome and four more over the angles.· Inside four arches support the central dome with squinches rather than pendentives.
► geodesic· Buckminster Fuller has made a life-time study of geodesic domes.· He knew what Greenpeace was, and the geodesic dome, and sado-masochism, and even supply-side economics.· He was forty-four years old, on display under a geodesic dome.
► great· Looming over all was the great green dome of the Roman Catholic cathedral.· Topstock's little grey eyes snapped through his steel frames under the great downy dome.· His head was a great shaven dome.· Their voices sounded shrill and incongruous, violating the silence that was appropriate in the great dome of the forest.· He stood in the centre of the church beneath the great dome and began to look carefully all round him.
► large· The main church behind is small and high, with the largest dome over it.· This is an advance but not suitable to carry a larger dome. 3.· The Byzantine contribution was the pendentive and this is not only a more satisfactory solution but will support large domes.· Wings, made of plates of wafer-thin metal, sprouted from a large dome on each android's back.
NOUN► car· The whole train stopped while he jumped down from the dome car and went to look at the laggard.· He wasn't in the forward dome car, upstairs or down, nor in the open dayniter.· Three or four people without seats were standing at the far dome car end, including the actress Angelica.· Nearly everyone, I would have guessed, had been either in the dining room or the dome car all morning.· The passengers drifted in from their rooms and the dome car and fell into by now predictable patterns of seating.· I went across the clattering, windy linkage space between the dining and dome cars and stood outside the toilet room.
► glass· The complex features glass domes which will let in natural sunlight on the two main shopping areas.· Stand a glass dome on a round stand and you have a protected display space.· The second was a glass dome, the size of a man, and a little taller than our hero.· The roof of the foyer consisted of an enormous green glass dome.· The five storey building features a circular atrium topped by a stained glass dome.· His top-storey apartment had a glass dome which allowed him to sit watching the falling stars.· Another City bank conversion, with fantastic high ceilings, a glass dome, chandeliers and a central oval bar.
VERB► build· Facing the hotels, bulging out over the very brink of the abyss, some one had built a huge green dome.· It was built with five domes and three eastern apses and has entrances on three sides.
► cover· Inside, the nave is in square bays which are covered by domes on pendentives.· They were set not on black sky, however, but on a brilliantly painted mural which covered the dome.· Like most other examples of this type it has no aisles but a short, wide nave, covered by four domes.· The crossing is covered by a dome or lantern.
► support· A basic difference in the architectural construction was the use in Pskov of corbelled arches rather than pendentives to support the domes.· Inside four arches support the central dome with squinches rather than pendentives.· The Cathedral of S. Dimitri was begun in 1194 and has a simpler plan with four piers supporting a single dome.· The Byzantine contribution was the pendentive and this is not only a more satisfactory solution but will support large domes.· Also the interior was higher and narrower, both characteristics being necessary to support the 13 domes.
a round roof on a building2a shape or building like a ball cut in half