Definitions for domed
domed
domed
Spelling: [dohmd]
IPA: /doʊmd/
Domed is a 5 letter English word.
It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points.
It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.
You can make 47 anagrams from letters in domed (ddemo).
Definitions for domed
noun
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Architecture.
a vault, having a circular plan and usually in the form of a portion of a sphere, so constructed as to exert an equal thrust in all directions.
a domical roof or ceiling.
a polygonal vault, ceiling, or roof.
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any covering thought to resemble the hemispherical vault of a building or room:
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anything shaped like a hemisphere or inverted bowl.
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(in a dam) a semidome having its convex surface toward the impounded water.
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Crystallography. a form having planes that intersect the vertical axis and are parallel to one of the lateral axes.
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Geology. upwarp.
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Also called vistadome. Railroads. a raised, glass-enclosed section of the roof of a passenger car, placed over an elevated section of seats to afford passengers a full view of scenery.
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Horology. an inner cover for the works of a watch, which snaps into the rim of the case.
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a mountain peak having a rounded summit.
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Slang. a person's head:
adjective
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shaped like a dome:
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having a dome:
verb (used with object)
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to cover with or as if with a dome.
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to shape like a dome.
verb (used without object)
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to rise or swell as a dome.
Origin of domed
First recorded in 1765-75; dome + -ed3
Examples for domed
There were domed tombs of saints, glittering like snow-palaces in the sun.
A domed room of the most shining alabaster could not be more beautiful.
Inside, a massive, domed nave offers individual air conditioning vents for all 7,000 chairs.
The air is close and vaporous; the domed chamber is damp and musty.
The Pantheon is the finest example of a domed hall which we have left.
Blue mesas poke above the distant horizon line, and a domed courthouse grows larger as you near Marfa.
It was domed in shape and was still hot from the heat of the day.
And what the heck did Rust see in the domed "Carcosa" throne room before Childress leapt from the shadows and stabbed him?
The ceiling was domed like a sky and painted in sunny Italian scenery.
It was a domed city in the polar regions, where nobody ever had to go outdoors.