Belvedere vs. Cupola — What's the Difference?

A roofed structure, especially a small pavilion or tower on top of a building, situated so as to command a wide view.

In architecture, a cupola is a relatively small, most often dome-like, tall structure on top of a building. Often used to provide a lookout or to admit light and air, it usually crowns a larger roof or dome.The word derives, via Italian, from lower Latin cupula (classical Latin cupella from Greek κύπελλον kupellon) 'small cup' (Latin cupa) indicating a vault resembling an upside-down cup.

(architecture) A turret or other raised structure offering a pleasant view of the surrounding area.

A vaulted roof or ceiling.

Bassia scoparia (summer cypress)

A small dome set on a circular or polygonal base or resting on pillars.

A small building, or a part of a building, more or less open, constructed in a place commanding a fine prospect.

A small structure surmounting a roof or dome, often used as a lookout or to admit light and air.

Densely branched Eurasian plant; foliage turns purple-red in autumn

A cylindrical shaft type of blast furnace used for remelting metals, usually iron, before casting.

A gazebo sited to command a fine view

A small rounded and domed structure, as for observation, on a tracked, armored vehicle.

(architecture) 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.

(geology) An upward-projecting mass of plutonic rock extending from a larger batholith.

(geometry) 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.

(anatomy) 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.

A roof having a rounded form, hemispherical or nearly so; also, a ceiling having the same form. When on a large scale it is usually called dome.

A small structure standing on the top of a dome; a lantern.

A furnace for melting iron or other metals in large quantity, - used chiefly in foundries and steel works.

A revolving shot-proof turret for heavy ordnance.

The top of the spire of the cochlea of the ear.

A vertical cylindrical furnace for melting iron for casting

A roof in the form of a dome