dome´like´

dome «dohm», noun, verb, domed, dom|ing.

–n.

1. a large, rounded roof or ceiling on a circular or many-sided base; cupola: »

Nearly every state capitol has a dome.

2. anything shaped like a dome; something high and rounded: »

the dome of the sky, the rounded dome of a hill.

3. Archaic. a house; mansion: »

In Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure-dome decree (Samuel Taylor Coleridge).

4. Crystallography. a prism whose faces meet in a horizontal edge, like the roof of a house.

5. = dome car. (Cf. ↑dome car)

6. Geology. an anticlinal formation, circular or elliptical in structure, characteristic of oil and salt deposits, extrusions of volcanic lava, etc.: »

Most of the world's sulfur today comes from deposits along the Gulf Coast of this country known as “domes” (Wall Street Journal).

–v.t.

1. to cover with or as if with a dome.

2. to shape like a dome.

–v.i.

to rise or swell like a dome.

╂[< Middle French dôme < Provençal doma < Late Latin dōma roof, house < Greek dōma house; (def. 3) < Latin domus house]

–dome´like´, adjective.