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roof over one's head

roof over one's head noun: a place to live or reside; shelter.

Noun

roof over one's head (plural roofs over one's head or rooves over one's head)

  1. (idiomatic) A place to live or reside; shelter.
    • When you were in trouble, he gave you a roof over your head.
    • The persons who stood to lose their homes and who faced the prospect of losing the rooves over their heads were the whole Hilton family, all three generations of them - the occupants of both houses, both the bungalow and the big brick house.1983, Matthew Sheard, Watson W. Evans, Joseph Strung, “Leo Joseph Hare: Appeal from a Decision of the Registrar of Real Estate and Business Brokers”, in Commercial Registration Appeal Tribunal...

Forms of roof over one's head

pluralroofs over one's head
pluralrooves over one's head
alternative formroof over the head

Questions about roof over one's head

What does roof over one's head mean?
Roof over one's head means a place to live or reside; shelter.
What part of speech is roof over one's head?
Roof over one's head is a noun.
What is the plural of roof over one's head?
The plural of roof over one's head is roofs over one's head.

Words near roof over one's head in the dictionary

  1. roof light
  2. roof lights
  3. roof of the mouth
  4. Roof of the World
  5. roof over
  6. roof over one's head
  7. roof over the head
  8. roof prism
  9. roof prisms
  10. roof rabbit
  11. roof rabbits

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