roofe

Noun

roof (plural roofs or (UK, uncommon) rooves)

1. The external covering at the top of a building.
   • The roof was blown off by the tornado.

   Synonyms:

   rooftop, tect, thatch

2. The top external level of a building.
   • Let's go up to the roof.
3. The upper part of a cavity.
   • The palate is the roof of the mouth.

   Synonyms:

   ceiling

4. The surface or bed of rock immediately overlying a bed of coal or a flat vein.
5. An overhanging rock wall.
6. (archaic, slang) A hat.
   • Tom thought his cap a very knowing affair, but confessed that he had a hat in his hat-box; which was accordingly at once extracted from the hind-boot, and Tom equipped in his go-to-meeting roof, as his new friend called it.1857, Thomas Hughes, Tom Brown's School Days

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