domed city

collocation in English

meaningsofdomedandcity

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domed
adjective
uk
/dəʊmd/us
/doʊmd/
shaped like a dome or covered with ...
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city
noun[C]
uk
/ˈsɪt.i/us
/ˈsɪt̬.i/
a ...
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(Definition ofdomedandcityfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Thedomedcitywas seen only in the pilot and two other episodes, using recycled footage from the film.
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The majority of the human population is divided up into a number of smalldomedcity-states.
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Thedomedcityin fiction has been interpreted as a symbolic womb that both nourishes and protects humanity.
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They follow the road and discover adomedcity.
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Her sudden transformation leaves herdomedcitystranded beneath the waters of the lake, as only she knew the spell.
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This caused confusion among the viewers because it was mentioned as adomedcity, not a spaceship.
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After walking across the desert, they finally see adomedcityin the distance, and decide to seek refuge there.
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In some works, thedomedcityrepresents the last stand of a human race that is either dead or dying.
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Chicago becomes adomedcity, surrounded by a zone of nothingness in the shape of a black bowl.
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The three escape in an armored truck and drive along a narrow suspended roadway over what appears to be adomedcitybuilt in a crater.
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The phrasedomedcityhad come into use by the 19th century in a different sense, meaning a skyline with dome-topped buildings.
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In the middle of the series, thedomedcitywas then changed to a spaceship where the lucky few people will board before the asteroid hits the planet.
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The characters have a comfortable life within adomedcity, but the city also serves to control the populace and to ensure that humanity never again outgrows its means.
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The majority of the planet's populace lives in underwater domed cities and cities which float on the planet's ocean surface.
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This species built five domed cities specifically to survive as their world went into interstellar space, but ultimately decided to simply go extinct after they were completed.
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Civilization has largely become confined to domed cities in which the populace exists in a state of drug-addled stupor in order to while away time between birth and death.
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