Millennium Dome
Proper noun
Meaning
Millennium Dome
A large building at Greenwich in London, the largest single roofed structure in the world; now renamed "O2".
Examples
The critic Jonathan Meades has scathingly referred to the Millennium Dome as a "Museum of Toxic Waste", citation and apart from the dome itself, the project included the reclamation of the entire Greenwich Peninsula.
Regardless of its mysterious origins, organisers of National Curry Week claim that if all the portions sold in one year in the UK were stacked, they would constitute a tikka tower 2,770 times taller than the Greenwich Millennium Dome.
The business park was actually the original 1996 proposal for the site of the peninsula before the plans for the Millennium Dome were proposed.
The exhibits A short clip inside the Millennium Dome in London, mid 2000.