cupola — meaning in English

English meaning

• cupola noun A dome-shaped ornamental structure located on top of a larger roof or dome.
• dome noun A rounded, hemispherical roof or ceiling.
• hood noun A loose covering for the head, often part of a jacket or coat.

Senses

cupola is used for these senses in English:

• cupola (architecture) A dome-shaped ornamental structure located on top of a larger roof or dome.
• dome (architecture) A structural element resembling the hollow upper half of a sphere.
• hood An enclosure that protects something, especially from above.

cupola — full definition

1. noun A dome-shaped ornamental structure located on top of a larger roof or dome.
2. noun A small turret, usually on a hatch of an armoured fighting vehicle.
3. noun An upward-projecting mass of plutonic rock extending from a larger batholith.
4. noun A solid formed by joining two polygons, one (the base) with twice as many edges as the other, by an alternating band of isosceles triangles and rectangles.

dome — full definition

1. noun A rounded, hemispherical roof or ceiling.
2. noun Informal: a person's head.

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