rotunda

English - Turkish

Definition of rotunda in English Turkish dictionary: rotonda; kubbeli yuvarlak yapı; {i} daire biçiminde oda; {i} rotond, üstü kubbeli yuvarlak bina/oda; yuvarlak yapı; {i} yuvarlak ve kubbeli yapı; daire şeklinde kubbeli bina veya; kubbe

English - English

Definition of rotunda in English English dictionary: 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
A rotunda: rotund
fenestra rotunda: fenestra leading into the cochlea

rotunda

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ro·tun·da

rōtʌndı

/rōˈtəndə/ /roʊˈtʌndə/

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

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