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onion dome en · NOUN

Meanings

1. An onion-shaped dome, characteristic of august buildings in Moghul and Russian architecture
   • The characteristic bulging onion dome, which is a signature of Russian [church] architecture, came into being to shed heavy snow. 2001, Carol Strickland, Amy Handy, Patty Brown, The Annotated Arch: A Crash Course in the History of Architecture, page 36:
   • an onion dome may have a shape that is somewhat more than a half sphere and may be pointed at the top 1993, Leland M. Roth, Understanding Architecture: Its Elements, History, and Meaning, page 523:

Forms

Deriveds

onion-domed

Translations (16)

sv lökkupol (onion-shaped dome) · de Zwiebelturm (onion-shaped dome) · fi sipulikupoli (onion-shaped dome) · is laukturn (onion-shaped dome) · es cúpula acebollada (onion-shaped dome) · ru луковицео́бразный ку́пол (onion-shaped dome) · fr clocher à bulbe (onion-shaped dome) · hu hagymakupola (onion-shaped dome) · da løgkuppel (onion-shaped dome) · nl uikoepel (onion-shaped dome) · et sibulkuppel (onion-shaped dome) · th โดมหัวหอม (onion-shaped dome) · pl cebula (onion-shaped dome) · mk кромидеста купола (onion-shaped dome) · pt cúpula bulbosa (onion-shaped dome) · is næpa (onion-shaped dome)