rotunda

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a round building, usually small, often with a dome
Round building, sometimes enclosed in a colonnade ;also a round room
building circular in plan
A rotunda is a round building or room, especially one with a round bowl-shaped roof. a round building or hall, especially one with a dome (rotonda, from rotundus; ROUND). In Classical and Neoclassical architecture, a building or room that is circular in plan and covered with a dome. The Pantheon is a Classical Roman rotunda. The Villa Rotonda at Vicenza, designed by Andrea Palladio, is an Italian Renaissance example. The central hall of the U.S. Capitol is an example of the rotunda in its familiar role as part of a monumental public building
a building having a circular plan and a dome
{i} round room or building (esp. one with with a domed roof)
a large circular room
A round building; especially, one that is round both on the outside and inside, like the Pantheon at Rome
a large circular room a building having a circular plan and a dome
a circular, domed building or hall
Less properly, but very commonly, used for a large round room; as, the rotunda of the Capitol at Washington
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fenestra leading into the cochlea
rotunda

    Hyphenation

    ro·tun·da

    Turkish pronunciation

    rōtʌndı

    Pronunciation

    /rōˈtəndə/ /roʊˈtʌndə/

    Etymology

    [ rO-'t&n-d& ] (noun.) circa 1700. Italian rotonda, from Latin rotunda, feminine of rotundus.
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