rotunda
noun
a round building, especially one with a dome.
rotundas
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pluralof rotunda.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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A famous example was a 1986 column on the Solomon R. Guggenheim’s proposal to expand its iconic Frank Lloyd Wright building by erecting a rectangular tower behind the smaller of the building’s two rotundas.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 7, 2026
Last year for Doors Open Day the Malin Group engineering firm which now inhabits one of the rotundas allowed the public to visit.
From BBC ● Feb. 24, 2024
Arenas and stadiums are circumscribed spaces — rotundas if you will — with miniature societal compacts, and when you lack self-management in that space, you get ejected.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 8, 2021
TV news crews often do live hits and interviews from both rotundas.
From Fox News ● Mar. 23, 2019
There were underground corridors, ante-chambers, rotundas, and ventilating shafts with a bewildering play of cross lights, so that wherever you looked you saw Goya's pictures of men-at-arms.
From France at War On the Frontier of Civilization by Rudyard Kipling
