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house-top

house-top is the archaic form of housetop.

Meaning of housetop

Noun

housetop (plural housetops)

  1. The roof of a house.
    • 26 Feare them not therefore: for there is nothing couered, that shall not be reueiled; and hidde, that shall not be knowen.
      27 What I tell you in darkenesse, that speake yee in light: and what yee heare in the eare, that preach yee vpon the house tops.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Matthew 10:26–27

Forms of house-top

pluralhouse-tops

Questions about house-top

What is house-top the archaic form of?
House-top is the archaic form of housetop.

Words near house-top in the dictionary

  1. house-sitters
  2. house-sitting
  3. house-slipper
  4. house-slippers
  5. house-to-house
  6. house-top
  7. house-tops
  8. house-train
  9. house-trained
  10. house-training
  11. house-trains

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Adapted from Wiktionary: house-top (page history and authors); housetop (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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