Usually means: Dome-shaped roof or structure.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. cupola: Merriam-Webster
  2. cupola: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. cupola: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. cupola: Collins English Dictionary
  5. cupola: Vocabulary.com
  6. Cupola, cupola: Wordnik
  7. cupola: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Cupola: InfoVisual Visual Dictionary
  9. cupola: Wiktionary
  10. cupola: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. cupola: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. cupola: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. cupola: Dictionary.com
  14. cupola: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. Cupola (ISS module), Cupola (cave formation), Cupola (disambiguation), Cupola (geometry), Cupola, The Cupola (mountain): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Cupola: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. cupola: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. cupola: Rhymezone
  19. Cupola, cupola: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. cupola: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. cupola: FreeDictionary.org
  22. cupola: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  23. cupola: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. cupola: TheFreeDictionary.com
  25. cupola: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. cupola: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. CUPOLA: The Britannia Lexicon (Middle Ages Glossary)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. cupola: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. cupola: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Cupola: Castle Terms

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Cupola: Catholic Encyclopedia

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Cupola: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. cupola: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Roofing Terms (No longer online)
  2. Urban Conservation Glossary (No longer online)

(Note: See cupolaed as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (architecture) A dome-shaped ornamental structure located on top of a larger roof or dome.
noun:  (military, railroad) A small turret, usually on a hatch of an armoured fighting vehicle.
noun:  (geology) An upward-projecting mass of plutonic rock extending from a larger batholith.
noun:  (geometry) A solid formed by joining two polygons, one (the base) with twice as many edges as the other, by an alternating band of isosceles triangles and rectangles.
noun:  A type of furnace used for smelting.
noun:  (anatomy) A small cap over a structure that is shaped like a dome or inverted cup.
noun:  (railways, Canada, dated) a small viewing window in the top of the caboose for looking over the train, or the part of the caboose where one looks through this window.
noun:  A body of members of the Sicilian Mafia who make decisions and settle disputes.

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