Definitions for cupola

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cupola cu·po·la

Spelling: [kyoo-puh-luh]

IPA: /ˈkyu pə lə/

Cupola is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 108 anagrams from letters in cupola (aclopu).

Definitions for cupola

noun

1. Architecture. a light structure on a dome or roof, serving as a belfry, lantern, or belvedere. a dome, especially one covering a circular or polygonal area.
2. any of various domelike structures.
3. Metallurgy. a vertical furnace for melting iron to be cast.

Origin of cupola

1540-50; Italian Latin cūpula, equivalent to cūp(a) tub + -ula -ule. Cf. cup

Examples for cupola

Its cupola is decidedly out of proportion to the small body of the structure.

The lofty nest, or Termitarium, constitutes a hillock in the form of a cupola.

From here a steep set of steps led to the cupola on the roof.

It looks well, by moonlight; how the tin of the cupola glistens!

It hung by the side of the dial in the cupola of the old Town Hall.

First I raps on his cupola with me knuckles, just to ring him up.

Would to God I had set eyes on her and her only that day under the cupola!

From this cupola thousands of icicles of the most varied shapes were hanging.

But far up in a tall old house, crowned by a cupola, was a girl who did not cry.

There was also an ornamented cross in this cupola, and other crosses in other chambers.