Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A circular building, especially one with a dome.
- noun A large area with a high ceiling, as in a hotel lobby.
- noun A large round room.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A round building, especially one with a dome; any building that is round both outside and inside. The most celebrated edifice of this kind is the Pantheon at Rome. See cuts under
octastyle and pantheon. - noun A circular hall in a large building, generally surmounted by a dome: as, the rotunda of the Capitol in Washington.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Arch.) A round building; especially, one that is round both on the outside and inside, like the Pantheon at Rome. Less properly, but very commonly, used for a large round room.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun a
round building , usuallysmall , often with adome
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a large circular room
- noun a building having a circular plan and a dome
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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An hour later, members of the public were allowed to sign a guest book and pay their respects to Hassell in the yellow-and-white rotunda, which is adorned by marble busts of Virginia-born presidents.
Mourners gather in memory of Hassell, first black to lead Virginia Supreme Court Anita Kumar 2011
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An hour later, members of the public were allowed to sign a guest book and pay their respects to Hassell in the yellow-and-white rotunda, which is adorned by marble busts of Virginia-born presidents.
Mourners gather in memory of Hassell, first black to lead Virginia Supreme Court Anita Kumar 2011
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First thing you see in the rotunda is the statue of Chief Washakie.
grouse Diary Entry grouse 2005
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It stands in the centre of the arched rotunda, which is common to all denominations, and from which branch off the various chapels belonging to each particular sect.
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The picture galleries of the High Museum are treated as subsidiary spaces shunted off from the proportionally dominant, glass-paneled entry rotunda, which is flooded with daylight and unusable for the display of works that require careful conservation.
The Big Rock Candy Mountain Filler, Martin 1997
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Whitehall, hangs in the great upper rotunda, which is a setting not unworthy of its fame.
In and Around Berlin Minerva Brace Norton
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In front of the corridor of the rotunda is a projecting balcony, with six gigantic female figures on the corners of its balustrade representing Europe, Asia, North and South America, Africa and
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Under the rotunda was a low, broad marble counter, surmounted by a gleaming mirror and a noble array of bottles, flasks, decanters, goblets and glasses of every size.
In the Sweet Dry and Dry Christopher Morley 1923
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An octagon tower surrounds the rotunda, which is ornamented with Grecian cornices, etc., and its dome is decorated at top with a similar ornament to that of the Choragic Monument of Lysicrates, commonly called the Lanthorn of Demosthenes.
A Manual of North Carolina Issued by the North Carolina Historical Commission for the Use of Members of the General Assembly Session 1913 Robert Digges Wimberly 1913
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In the rotunda was a hollow section of one of the largest trees that grow in the Maraposa grove of red woods in California.
Elsie at the World's Fair Martha Finley 1868
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