n.
- a rounded vault forming the roof of a building or structure.
▸the revolving openable hemispherical roof of an observatory.
- the rounded summit of a hill or mountain.
▸Geology a rounded uplifted landform or underground structure.
- informal the top of the head.
- literary a stately building.
v.
[
often as noun doming]
form a rounded shape.
Derivative
- domed adj.
- dome-like adj.
Etymology
C16: from Fr. dôme, from Ital. duomo ‘cathedral, dome’, from L. domus ‘house’.