CUPOLA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cupola mean? 

• CUPOLA (noun)
  The noun CUPOLA has 2 senses:

1. a vertical cylindrical furnace for melting iron for casting

2. a roof in the form of a dome

  Familiarity information: CUPOLA used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CUPOLA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A vertical cylindrical furnace for melting iron for casting

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("cupola" is a kind of...):

furnace (an enclosed chamber in which heat is produced to heat buildings, destroy refuse, smelt or refine ores, etc.)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A roof in the form of a dome

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("cupola" is a kind of...):

dome (a hemispherical roof)

 Context examples 

The great oven is not so wide, by ten paces, as the cupola at St. Paul’s: for I measured the latter on purpose, after my return.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

It was the first time that the lawyer had been received in that part of his friend’s quarters; and he eyed the dingy, windowless structure with curiosity, and gazed round with a distasteful sense of strangeness as he crossed the theatre, once crowded with eager students and now lying gaunt and silent, the tables laden with chemical apparatus, the floor strewn with crates and littered with packing straw, and the light falling dimly through the foggy cupola.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)