rotunda
noun
ro·tun·da rō-ˈtən-də 
1
: a round building
especially : one covered by a dome
2
a
: a large round room
b
: a large central area (as in a hotel)
Example Sentences
We stood inside the rotunda of the U.S. Capitol Building.
Recent Examples on the Web The Department of Justice had asked for 30 days home confinement, citing how the defendant, Schwemmer, encouraged her friend, Jennifer Parks, to go into the Capitol and up a flight of stairs to the rotunda. 
Hannah Rabinowitz And Holmes Lybrand, CNN, 10 Jan. 2022 Some of the oldest buildings on its 132-acre campus, including the graceful Kendall Hall administration building and its rotunda, are built with brick exteriors in Romanesque style. Los Angeles Times, 16 Aug. 2022 The walls were buttercup, and, outside, the rotunda was also buttercup. Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 22 July 2022 The rotunda of American Adventure can be simultaneously serene and stirring. Dewayne Bevil, Orlando Sentinel, 21 July 2022 Be sure to head to the Racławice Panorama, a circular painting housed in a Brutalist rotunda, which celebrates the Poles' victory over Russia in the Battle of Racławice in 1794. Joe Minihane, CNN, 13 July 2022 Today, rotundas are associated with government buildings like the United States Capitol or Thomas Jefferson’s rotunda in the Academical Village at the University of Virginia. Lia Picard, WSJ, 11 May 2022 The Buddhist ceremony took place in a section of the garden underneath a rotunda of evergreens. Alexandra Macon, Vogue, 5 May 2022 In the past, a dozen student government members would set up a booth in the Capitol rotunda and chat with legislators. Daniel Golden, ProPublica, 4 July 2022 See More
Hannah Rabinowitz And Holmes Lybrand, CNN, 10 Jan. 2022 Some of the oldest buildings on its 132-acre campus, including the graceful Kendall Hall administration building and its rotunda, are built with brick exteriors in Romanesque style. Los Angeles Times, 16 Aug. 2022 The walls were buttercup, and, outside, the rotunda was also buttercup. Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 22 July 2022 The rotunda of American Adventure can be simultaneously serene and stirring. Dewayne Bevil, Orlando Sentinel, 21 July 2022 Be sure to head to the Racławice Panorama, a circular painting housed in a Brutalist rotunda, which celebrates the Poles' victory over Russia in the Battle of Racławice in 1794. Joe Minihane, CNN, 13 July 2022 Today, rotundas are associated with government buildings like the United States Capitol or Thomas Jefferson’s rotunda in the Academical Village at the University of Virginia. Lia Picard, WSJ, 11 May 2022 The Buddhist ceremony took place in a section of the garden underneath a rotunda of evergreens. Alexandra Macon, Vogue, 5 May 2022 In the past, a dozen student government members would set up a booth in the Capitol rotunda and chat with legislators. Daniel Golden, ProPublica, 4 July 2022 See More Word History
Etymology
Italian rotonda, from Latin rotunda, feminine of rotundus
First Known Use
circa 1566, in the meaning defined at sense 1
Phrases Containing rotunda
Medical Definition
rotunda
see fenestra rotunda