French word

dôme

Pronunciation

IPA/dom/

Meaning

  • masculine noundome

Example

Le dôme du stade protège des intempéries.

The stadium dome protects against the elements.

Illustration for dôme (dome)

More examples

La serre est protégée par un dôme en verre.

The greenhouse is protected by a glass dome.

Core concept

A hemispherical cap covering the upper part of a building or enclosed space.

Common phrases

  • un dôme en verre

    a glass dome

  • le dôme du bâtiment

    the building's dome

Similar words

toit: A building's upper exterior covering that protects the interior from weather.
plafond: A flat surface above the head inside a room.

Definition in French

Couverture en forme de coupole qui couvre ou couronne un bâtiment ou une salle, souvent de forme hémisphérique.

Word origin

The French noun dôme was borrowed from Italian duomo, which developed from Latin domus, house, before becoming an architectural term for a rounded crown.

Usage tips

  • The final e in dôme is silent, and the word is pronounced roughly like French dom rather than English dome.

Opposites

  • toit en pentepitched roofnoun

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