Crossword clues for rotunda
rotunda
- Decay reported beneath the Pantheon, for example
- Decay reported below building
- Capitol topper
- Pantheon feature
- Domed building
- Building with a dome
- Capitol center
- U.S. Capitol Building area
- The Pantheon in Rome has one
- Dome-topped building
- D.C. landmark, the ___
- Circular hall
- Central area of the US Capitol
- Capitol sight
- Capitol section
- Capitol hall
- Any building with a circular ground plan
- Hotel lobby, maybe
- Jefferson Memorial feature
- Capitol feature
- Capitol construction
- Washington landmark, with "the"
- Capitol Hill sight
- A building having a circular plan and a dome
- A large circular room
- Capitol highlight
- Hotel lobby, sometimes
- Domed hall
- Feature of Rome's Pantheon
- Circular building with a dome
- Round building
- Round domed building
- Do a turn (anag) — circular domed building
- Do a turn, roaming circular building
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Rotunda \Ro*tun"da\, n. [Cf. It. rotonda, F. rotonde; both fr. L. rotundus round. See Rotund, a.] (Arch.) A round building; especially, one that is round both on the outside and inside, like the Pantheon at Rome. Less properly, but very commonly, used for a large round room; as, the rotunda of the Capitol at Washington.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"round building," 1680s, from Italian rotonda, especially the Pantheon, from noun use of Latin rotunda, fem. of rotundus "round" (see rotund). Meaning "circular hall or room within a building" is from 1780.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (senseid en building) (lb en architecture) a round building, usually small, often with a dome 2 (senseid en typeface) (lb en typography frequently capitalized) A Gothic typeface used in early printed books in Northern Italy, based on a rounded script developed in the 13th cent.; the manuscript hand on which this typeface was based
WordNet
n. a building having a circular plan and a dome
a large circular room
Wikipedia
The Rotunda is a cylindrical highrise building in Birmingham, England. The Grade II listed building is tall and was completed in 1965. It was refurbished between 2004 and 2008 by Urban Splash with Glenn Howells who turned it into a residential building with serviced apartments on 19th and 20th floors. The building was officially reopened on 13 May 2008.
A rotunda (from Latin rotundus) is any building with a circular ground plan, and sometimes covered by a dome. It can also refer to a round room within a building (a famous example being within the United States Capitol in Washington, D.C.). The Pantheon in Rome is a famous rotunda. A Band Rotunda is a circular bandstand, usually with a dome.
The Rotunda is a specific medieval blackletter script. It originates in Carolingian minuscule. Sometimes, it is not considered a blackletter script, but a script on its own. It was used mainly in southern Europe.
Rotunda or The Rotunda may refer to:
- Rotunda (architecture), any building with a circular ground plan, often covered by a dome
- Rotunda (geometry), a family of dihedral-symmetric polyhedra with alternating pentagons and triangles around an axis
- Rotunda (script), a specific medieval blackletter script
- A term used by some Spanish-speaking or Spanish-influenced countries for roundabouts
The Rotunda on Woolwich Common, in south-east London, is a former artillery museum which was established in 1820. The building was originally a very large bell tent erected in St. James's Park in 1814 for a special exhibition and premature victory reception of the allied sovereigns in the Napoleonic Wars but its architect John Nash turned it into a permanent structure with a lead roof and central supporting pillar.
In 1973 the Rotunda was designated as a Grade II* listed building.
Since most of its exhibits were transferred to the Firepower museum at the Royal Arsenal in 2001, the Rotunda has ceased to be open to the public, except by special arrangement. The building is now used as a boxing ring by the King's Troop, Royal Horse Artillery, housed in the nearby Napier Lines Barracks.
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PKO Rotunda is a rotunda-type building owned by the PKO BP bank in the center of Warsaw, Poland. Designed from 1960–1969 by chief architect Jerzy Jakubowicz, it was the site of the 1979 Warsaw gas explosion.
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In geometry, a rotunda is any member of a family of dihedral-symmetric polyhedra. They are similar to a cupola but instead of alternating squares and triangles, it alternates pentagons and triangles around an axis. The pentagonal rotunda is a Johnson solid.
Other forms can be generated with dihedral symmetry and distorted equilateral pentagons.
Usage examples of "rotunda".
But her last forlorn glance down from the head of the ramp had been of Gold Ambon standing there in the middle of the black-and-white diamonds of the rotunda, looking up at her with miserable reproachful eyes.
The Hall of Sovereigns is a glittering vast rotunda which ancient masters of all the arts wrought into a vision of glory and beauty with sculptured marbles and incrusted gems and costly goldwork and sunset splendors of color, and there the monarchs of all the globe have assembled every fifty years, with their officers of state, to do homage to the Parents of the Race.
Strave of the Guardian Cities, a place of the grandest architectural exuberance, no two structures remotely alike, great palaces chock-a-block defying one another in their glorious excess, profusions of towers and pavilions and belvederes and steeples and belfries and cupolas and rotundas and porticos sprouting madly everywhere like giant mushrooms.
Electors of Arran Quay, Inns Quay, Rotunda, Mountjoy and North Dock, better run a tramline, I say, from the cattlemarket to the river.
We entered the fine rotunda with our hats off, and began to walk round and round, our arms behind our backs--a common custom in England, at least in those days.
However, most of the ornate spires, great sweeping colonnades, and huge rotundas, with their tall round-topped arches, monolithic lintels, and carved entablatures, were now engulfed by a sprawl of ersatz rococo domes and obelisks, which catered to the banal tastes of the gamblers and hedonists who frequented the planet in droves, and the whole of it was fissured by a labyrinth of narrow stairways, curving ramps, sheltered bridges, and dank tunnels.
Escorted by the three looming goondas, Seven followed the portly Englishman into a spacious yet shadowy rotunda lit only by swatches of sunlight that fell from the fractured dome high above onto the bare stone floor.
Usually, there was dancing by the river bank as well as in the huge rococo Rotunda, the principal attraction and centrepiece of the gardens, used for a variety of entertainments and promenading.
Its numerous entrances were coded, by color and other means, to individual species, many of whom required specific atmospheres and gravities, as was also the case with many of the senate rotunda balconies.
But at that moment Craton Starbridge raised his hand, shouting from the back of the rotunda: “My lord, it’s true.
The stranger seemed bent on arranging tons of desiccant in a simple geometric pattern on the floor of the synthesizer rotunda.
An acetylene torch, flickering near the silver expanse of the metal security door at the east end of the Rotunda, cast ghostly shadows across the tall ceiling.
In the wash-up from the fire, there's four houses burnt down as well as the picnic rotunda in the Historic Park, St Stephen's and the priest's house.
There were three decks, a central rotunda, balconies of black wood and copper, a scrolled prow, observation cupolas, weapon ports, a vertical fin displaying a gold and black insignia.
Trying very hard to hold fast to her faith in the Gods, Kadolan had accompanied Inosolan and Azak to the Rotunda.