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pent roof

pent roof noun: a sloping roof with a singular surface.

Noun

pent roof (plural pent roofs)

  1. A sloping roof with a singular surface.
  2. A short roof appended to the side of a building, particularly a barn.
  3. A penta engine, also known as a pent-roof combustion chamber.

pent roof meaning in Tamil

pent roof in Tamil

பத்திக்கூரை

Forms of pent roof

pluralpent roofs
alternative formpentroof

Origin of pent roof

Shortened from penthouse roof.

Questions about pent roof

What does pent roof mean?
Pent roof means a sloping roof with a singular surface.
What is pent roof in Tamil?
Pent roof in Tamil is பத்திக்கூரை. See Pent roof meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is pent roof?
Pent roof is a noun.
What is the plural of pent roof?
The plural of pent roof is pent roofs.

Words near pent roof in the dictionary

  1. pensy
  2. Pensylvania
  3. pensée
  4. pensées
  5. pent
  6. pent roof
  7. pent roofs
  8. pent up
  9. pent-
  10. pent-house
  11. pent-houses

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pent roof (page history and authors); pent roof (Tamil Wiktionary) (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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