rotunda
noun
ro·tun·da
rō-ˈtən-də 
1
: a round building
especially
: one covered by a dome
2
a
: a large round room
b
: a large central area (as in a hotel)
Examples of rotunda in a Sentence
We stood inside the rotunda of the U.S. Capitol Building.
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At his bedside: an architectural model of a rotunda.
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Kathryn O’Shea-Evans, Southern Living, 31 July 2024
Capitol police arrested about 200 people Tuesday who protested U.S. weapons sales to Israel in the rotunda of the Cannon House Office Building.
—Martin Weil, Washington Post, 24 July 2024
That often means curves, whether arches, vaults, rotundas or domes (take the Pantheon in Rome, still the world’s largest unsupported dome in the world almost 2,000 years later).
—Tom Page, CNN, 1 Aug. 2024
There, on the outskirts of the famous rotunda, Bailey accosted and started haranguing me about [the New York law Trump was found liable for violating].
—Molly Crane-Newman, New York Daily News, 25 July 2024
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Kathryn O’Shea-Evans, Southern Living, 31 July 2024
Capitol police arrested about 200 people Tuesday who protested U.S. weapons sales to Israel in the rotunda of the Cannon House Office Building.
—Martin Weil, Washington Post, 24 July 2024
That often means curves, whether arches, vaults, rotundas or domes (take the Pantheon in Rome, still the world’s largest unsupported dome in the world almost 2,000 years later).
—Tom Page, CNN, 1 Aug. 2024
There, on the outskirts of the famous rotunda, Bailey accosted and started haranguing me about [the New York law Trump was found liable for violating].
—Molly Crane-Newman, New York Daily News, 25 July 2024
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rotunda
noun
ro·tun·da
rō-ˈtən-də
1
: a round building
especially
: one covered by a dome
2
a
: a large round room
b
: a large central area (as in a hotel)
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