Definitions for cupolas

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cupolas cu·po·la

Spelling: [kyoo-puh-luh]

IPA: /ˈkyu pə lə/

Cupolas is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 225 anagrams from letters in cupolas (aclopsu).

Definitions for cupolas

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 cupolas

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

Examples for cupolas

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!

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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