The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 6 letter word CUPOLA
I've seen this crossword clue in The Daily Telegraph
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More clues leading to the result CUPOLA
- Round top of trophy, see revolving article
- Carbonated drink bottles finished round roof
- Copper on front of short polar dome
- Column holding aloft a rounded vault
- Breaking up coal for the furnace
- Cost ignoring St Paul’s renovated dome
- Fizzy drink that’s finished inside
- A couple almost reconstructed dome
- Copper bottom cut from freezing dome
- Drink sealing success in dome
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The straight part
We know that "dome" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case dome = cupola.The cryptic/wordplay part
In cryptic crossword there's often an wordplay/cryptic part as well.This part involves a more complex hint, such as an anagram, homophone, hidden word, etc.
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What does CUPOLA mean?
CUPOLA noun- 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 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 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.