Definitions
a large circular room
Word origin
Learned borrowing from Latin rotunda, from rotundus (“round”). In the architectural sense, from Sancta Maria Rotunda (the name for a church in the Pantheon).
Used in a sentence
“The purely Greek character of the temple is revealed in the fact that there is no portico aligning the structure; Roman tholoi and rotundae are usually distinguished by a portico.”
“Access to the shafts is gained via a brick entrance rotunda below a glass dome. The walls of these rotundae are built over the outer edge of caissons which hold the shafts; […]”
“TPLEX Rotunda is a roundabout located in Rosario, La Union.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Round building hall”7 letters
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