Definition of ROTUNDA

rotunda

Plural: rotundae, rotundas

Noun

  • A round building or room, often with a dome.
  • a building having a circular plan and a dome
  • a large circular room
  • A round building, usually small, often with a dome.
  • A Gothic typeface used in early printed books in Northern Italy, based on a rounded script developed in the 13th cent.; the manuscript hand on which this typeface was based.
  • Alternative spelling of rotonda.
  • A form of cupola that has pentagons rather than squares or rectangles.

Examples

  • The letters swirled in his mind like dancers in a ROTUNDA, searching for a word.
  • TPLEX Rotunda is a roundabout located in Rosario, La Union.

Origin / Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin rotunda, from rotundus (“round”). In the architectural sense, from Sancta Maria Rotunda (the name for a church in the Pantheon).

Scrabble Score: 8

rotunda: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Word
rotunda: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
rotunda: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 10

rotunda: valid Words With Friends Word