tholos
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 9
- Words With Friends
- 9
- Letters
- 6
/ˈθɒlɒs/
Definition of tholos
2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included
noun
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A dome, or domed building; a cupola.
“On the way they pointed out the tennis court and the old summerhouse, a mock tholos, Doric by way of Pompeii, and Stanford White, and (said Francis, who was scornful of this Victorian effort at classicism) D. W. Griffith and Cecil B. De Mille.”
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noun
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A dome, or domed building; a cupola.
“On the way they pointed out the tennis court and the old summerhouse, a mock tholos, Doric by way of Pompeii, and Stanford White, and (said Francis, who was scornful of this Victorian effort at classicism) D. W. Griffith and Cecil B. De Mille.”
- A dome-shaped tomb from the Mycenaean period of Ancient Greece.
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From Ancient Greek θόλος (thólos, “dome”). Doublet of tholus and thole.
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