dome

plural domes

1. architectureA structural element resembling the hollow upper half of a sphere.

   geodesic dome

   Synonyms: cupola

2. broadlyAnything shaped like an upset bowl, often used as a cover.

   lava dome

   2 more examples

   a cake dome

   The heatwave, caused by what meteorologists described as a dome of high pressure, extends from California up through areas in Canada’s Arctic territories and was worsened by the human-caused climate crisis.

   2021 June 29, Gabrielle Canon, “Historic heatwave, extreme drought and wildfires plague North American west”, in The Guardian

3. informalA person's head.

   Was he in trouble, half a ton of rubble landed on the top of his dome.

   1962, Myles Rudge, “Right Said Fred”

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   Trapping ain't dead, the nitty still clucking and ringing my phone Chilling with bro, talking ’bout money, dough to the dome

   2016, “Let’s Lurk”, Monkey (lyrics), performed by 67 ft Giggs

   I got five Georgia homes where I rest my Georgia bones, Come anywhere on my land and I'll aim at your Georgia dome.

   2005, “Georgia”, performed by Ludacris

4. slanghead, oral sex

   Put your mouth on a dick, give me Georgia Dome.

   2005, “Georgia Dome”, performed by Ying Yang Twins

   Synonyms: brain, head, mouth music, neck, Kirk

5. obsoletepoeticA building; a house; an edifice.

   pleasure dome

   1 more example

   Approach the dome, the social banquet share.

   1726, Alexander Pope, Odyssey

6. broadlyAny erection resembling the dome or cupola of a building, such as the upper part of a furnace, the vertical steam chamber on the top of a boiler, etc.

   steam dome

7. chemistryA prism formed by planes parallel to a lateral axis which meet above in a horizontal edge, like the roof of a house; also, one of the planes of such a form.
8. geographyA geological feature consisting of symmetrical anticlines that intersect where each one reaches its apex.
9. businessA press stud or snap fastener.

present singular third person domes · participle present doming · participle past domed · past domed

1. transitiveTo give a domed shape to.

   The green and laughing world he sees, / Waters, and plains, and waving trees, / The skim of birds, and the blue-doming skies, […]

   1814, Leigh Hunt, “Ode for the Spring of 1814”, in The Descent of Liberty, a Mask, London: […] Gale, Curtis, and Fenner, […], published 1815, →OCLC, page lix

   1 more example

   […] the general effect being to dome the cover upward at least 1,000 and probably 2,000 feet, and to metamorphose the limy sediments into hornstones […]

   1907, Joseph Barrell, Geology of the Marysville Mining District, Montana, page 24

2. colloquialslangtransitiveTo shoot or hit in the head.

   That guy just got domed!

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   You can get hit with the fifth / Twisted with the biscuit / Blasted with the ratchet / Jacked with the MAC / Bodied with the shotty / Dumped with the pump / Rocked with the Glock / Sprayed with the 'K / Domed with the chrome

   2014, “Talk Shit, Get Shot”, in Ice-T (lyrics), Ernie C, Ice-T, Vincent Price, Will Putney (music), Manslaughter, performed by Body Count

   A wise man once said six bullets is more than enough to kill anything that moves. But unlike that man, I'd rather not spend half the fight slowly reloading while getting domed by enemy gunfire.

   2025 December 12, Nerbit, 6:32 from the start, in Can You Beat Fallout: New Vegas While Easily Distracted?, YouTube

3. UScolloquialslangtransitiveAfrican-American VernacularTo perform fellatio on.

   Synonyms: dome up

plural Domes

1. alternativeAlternative form of Dhome.

   To the Domes or out-castes are left the whole of the inferior trades […]

   1841, East India Company, East India: Slavery, volume 3, page 92

plural Domes

1. A surname.