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Definition of rotunda in English: rotundanoun rə(ʊ)ˈtʌndəroʊˈtəndə 1A round building or room, especially one with a dome. （尤指有圆屋顶的）圆形建筑，圆形房间 Example sentencesExamples - Circular rotundas and sweat houses, often rebuilt multiple times, are numerous.
- Above this is a four-sided arched structure, and this is surmounted by a rotunda with Corinthian columns enclosing two statues.
- If he treats the rotunda like the tower, some solar shading may be in the works.
- Similar to the curving rotundas of many capitol buildings, but, crucially, allowing in more daylight, it is monumental without losing its human scale.
- Waterplace is itself an artistic masterpiece: a curving waterway of canals, street lights, brick and stone steps, platforms for benches, restaurants, and small rotundas.
- From the museum rotunda, a huge angular mirror draws you into the exhibition space.
- To create a dramatic backdrop for presentations, plays, weddings, and other events, a portion of the curved lower wall of the rotunda was re-created in the center of the building.
- At Boldt Castle in the past three years a grand staircase, a great stained-glass dome, and a marble pavement have been installed in the central rotunda.
- Using historical photographs, they restored the rotunda and legislative chamber to their original antebellum style.
- Cold stone hallways wound away from the central rotunda where Mera stood.
- Visitors during the summer of 2002 may expect to see a new black-and-white marble floor in the rotunda beneath the dome.
- In the center of this Greek cross plan, he placed a rotunda surmounted by a low dome topped by a lantern.
- The center of Schinkel's building also contained a large rotunda, modeled on the Pantheon in Rome, where statues of the ancient gods inhabited niches recessed in the circular floor.
- Canova's Napoleon was not presented in incongruous isolation but rather in its own room, like an urban temple, as the rotunda of a sculpture gallery.
- We are presented with images of performing military bands in rotundas being watched by finely dressed women and British soldiers.
- The entrance rotunda is rendered in light tones and polished surfaces, dominated by a large, banded window punctuated with green glass.
- Some of the ceilings, especially that of the domed rotunda and the dining room, are richly decorated.
- As late as 1928, Gunnar Asplund was lining the great rotunda at the Stockholm Public Library with books.
- All of the collection's pictures were displayed in long and narrow rooms on the second floor around a rotunda containing sculpture.
- It was destroyed in 1799, but descriptions and drawings show that it consisted of three rooms en suite leading to the principal rotunda with a vaulted ceiling.
Synonyms cupola, vault, arched roof, arched ceiling 2usually rotondaSE Asian A roundabout. a rotonda that exits on four roads into Greater Manila
OriginEarly 17th century: alteration of Italian rotonda (camera) 'round (chamber)', feminine of rotondo 'round' (see rotund). Rhymesasunder, blunder, chunder, hereunder, plunder, sunder, thereunder, thunder, under, up-and-under, wonder Definition of rotunda in US English: rotundanounroʊˈtəndərōˈtəndə 1A round building or room, especially one with a dome. （尤指有圆屋顶的）圆形建筑，圆形房间 Example sentencesExamples - The center of Schinkel's building also contained a large rotunda, modeled on the Pantheon in Rome, where statues of the ancient gods inhabited niches recessed in the circular floor.
- Some of the ceilings, especially that of the domed rotunda and the dining room, are richly decorated.
- It was destroyed in 1799, but descriptions and drawings show that it consisted of three rooms en suite leading to the principal rotunda with a vaulted ceiling.
- We are presented with images of performing military bands in rotundas being watched by finely dressed women and British soldiers.
- Using historical photographs, they restored the rotunda and legislative chamber to their original antebellum style.
- At Boldt Castle in the past three years a grand staircase, a great stained-glass dome, and a marble pavement have been installed in the central rotunda.
- Similar to the curving rotundas of many capitol buildings, but, crucially, allowing in more daylight, it is monumental without losing its human scale.
- Cold stone hallways wound away from the central rotunda where Mera stood.
- Visitors during the summer of 2002 may expect to see a new black-and-white marble floor in the rotunda beneath the dome.
- Waterplace is itself an artistic masterpiece: a curving waterway of canals, street lights, brick and stone steps, platforms for benches, restaurants, and small rotundas.
- From the museum rotunda, a huge angular mirror draws you into the exhibition space.
- To create a dramatic backdrop for presentations, plays, weddings, and other events, a portion of the curved lower wall of the rotunda was re-created in the center of the building.
- Canova's Napoleon was not presented in incongruous isolation but rather in its own room, like an urban temple, as the rotunda of a sculpture gallery.
- Circular rotundas and sweat houses, often rebuilt multiple times, are numerous.
- As late as 1928, Gunnar Asplund was lining the great rotunda at the Stockholm Public Library with books.
- In the center of this Greek cross plan, he placed a rotunda surmounted by a low dome topped by a lantern.
- Above this is a four-sided arched structure, and this is surmounted by a rotunda with Corinthian columns enclosing two statues.
- If he treats the rotunda like the tower, some solar shading may be in the works.
- All of the collection's pictures were displayed in long and narrow rooms on the second floor around a rotunda containing sculpture.
- The entrance rotunda is rendered in light tones and polished surfaces, dominated by a large, banded window punctuated with green glass.
Synonyms cupola, vault, arched roof, arched ceiling 2usually rotondaSE Asian A traffic circle. a rotonda that exits on four roads into Greater Manila
OriginEarly 17th century: alteration of Italian rotonda (camera) ‘round (chamber)’, feminine of rotondo ‘round’ (see rotund). |