cyclorama
noun
cyclorama is a noun meaning “A panoramic image displayed on the inside of a cylindrical canvas” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled C-Y-C-L-O-R-A-M-A, and it appears about once in every 28 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of cyclorama is cycloramas.
What does cyclorama mean?
noun
- 1
A panoramic image displayed on the inside of a cylindrical canvas.
- 2
A building or room designed to show this image.
- 3
A large, often concave, backdrop, hung upstage in a theater.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of cyclorama
- cycloramas plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is cyclorama?
Cyclorama appears about once in every 28 million words in written English, the 159,707th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How do you abbreviate cyclorama?
Wiktionary records one abbreviation of cyclorama: cyc.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Cyclorama in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense panoramic image:
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does cyclorama come from?
From cyclo- + -rama (as in panorama).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).