how to pronounce cupola

/ˈkjuː.pəl.ə/

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cupola is pronounced in three syllables

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An example use of cupola in a speech by a native speaker of british english:

“… to Romania to add a glass cupola to her …”

meanings of cupola

noun:

A solid formed by joining two polygons, one (the base) with twice as many edges as the other, by an alternating band of isosceles triangles and rectangles.
A type of furnace used for smelting.
A dome-shaped ornamental structure located on top of a larger roof or dome.
A small turret, usually on a hatch of an armoured fighting vehicle.
An upward-projecting mass of plutonic rock extending from a larger batholith.
A small cap over a structure that is shaped like a dome or inverted cup.
A small viewing window in the top of the caboose for looking over the train, or the part of the caboose where one looks through this window.

cupola frequency in english - C2+ level of CEFR

the word cupola occurs in english on average 0.6 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for C2+ level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.

topics cupola can be related to

it is hard to perfectly classify words into specific topics since each word can have many context of its use, but our machine-learning models believe that cupola can be often used in the following areas:

1) life, nature, and living environment;