rotunda
noun
ro·tun·da
rō-ˈtən-də 
1
: a round building
especially
: one covered by a dome
2
a
: a large round room
b
: a large central area (as in a hotel)
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We stood inside the rotunda of the U.S. Capitol Building.
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The 2024 ornament depicts the mosaics and mural at the top of the dome, which many visitors and school groups photograph or admire while laying down on the floor of the rotunda.
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Hope Karnopp, Journal Sentinel, 12 Dec. 2024
In response to the slew of actions, protesters sent more than 48,000 colorful paper hearts raining down from the fourth floor of the Statehouse to the first-floor rotunda on Tuesday, KTVB-TV reported.
—San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Apr. 2024
Gaetz met with Cornyn and other Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee in the Capitol’s Strom Thurmond Room just off the rotunda Wednesday.
—Alexander Bolton, The Hill, 21 Nov. 2024
The official medallion ceremony includes the unveiling of a bronze plaque that will hang in the museum’s rotunda, alongside the renderings of its existing 152 members, including Hank Williams, Willie Nelson and Reba McEntire.
—Tom Roland, Billboard, 16 Oct. 2024
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Hope Karnopp, Journal Sentinel, 12 Dec. 2024
In response to the slew of actions, protesters sent more than 48,000 colorful paper hearts raining down from the fourth floor of the Statehouse to the first-floor rotunda on Tuesday, KTVB-TV reported.
—San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Apr. 2024
Gaetz met with Cornyn and other Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee in the Capitol’s Strom Thurmond Room just off the rotunda Wednesday.
—Alexander Bolton, The Hill, 21 Nov. 2024
The official medallion ceremony includes the unveiling of a bronze plaque that will hang in the museum’s rotunda, alongside the renderings of its existing 152 members, including Hank Williams, Willie Nelson and Reba McEntire.
—Tom Roland, Billboard, 16 Oct. 2024
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rotunda
noun
ro·tun·da
rō-ˈtən-də
1
: a round building
especially
: one covered by a dome
2
a
: a large round room
b
: a large central area (as in a hotel)
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