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house top

house top is the alternative 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 alternative form of?
House top is the alternative form of housetop.

Words near house top in the dictionary

  1. house spirit
  2. house style
  3. house styles
  4. house take
  5. House That Freddy Built
  6. house top
  7. house tops
  8. house trailer
  9. house trailers
  10. house train
  11. house trained

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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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