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dôme

French, noun/dom/

dôme is spelled D-Ô-M-E (4 letters) and appears 5.8 times per million words in written French, the 10,141st most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Dôme is a French masculine noun meaning “dome” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Ouvrage en forme de coupe renversée, qui surmonte un grand édifice”.

What does dôme mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    masculinedome

noun

  1. 1

    masculinecathedral of a town or city, especially in Italy or Germany

Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How French dictionaries define it

noun: 1. Ouvrage en forme de coupe renversée, qui surmonte un grand édifice. 2. Coupole. 3. Bâtiment caractérisé par son dôme. 4. Voûte de verdure, de feuillage, des cieux.

adjective: 1. Qui est fait en dôme, qui a un dôme.

The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.

Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.

Forms of dôme

  • dômes plural
  • dômés plural masculine
  • dômée singular feminine
  • dômées plural feminine

Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce dôme?

  • /dom/
  • \dom\
  • [dom]

Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

English words that translate to dôme

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is dôme in French?

dôme appears 5.8 times per million words in written French.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

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