roofs
UK/ɹuːvz/US/ɹʊfs/
roofs is the plural of roof.
roofs is the third-person singular simple present indicative of roof.
Meaning of roof
Noun
roof (plural roofs or (UK, uncommon) rooves)
- The external covering at the top of a building.
- The roof was blown off by the tornado.
- The top external level of a building.
- Let's go up to the roof.
- The upper part of a cavity.
- The palate is the roof of the mouth.
- Synonyms:
- ceiling
- The surface or bed of rock immediately overlying a bed of coal or a flat vein.
- An overhanging rock wall.
- 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
Forms of roofs
| alternative British English uncommon | rooves |
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Origin of roofs
From Middle English rofes, equivalent to roof + -s without voicing, first appearing in print in the 14th century. Displaced rooves as the standard plural in the early 17th century.
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Phrases with roofs
- M roofs
- V roofs
- hip roofs
- sod roofs
- curb roofs
- deck roofs
- moon roofs
- pent roofs
- shed roofs
- span roofs
- turf roofs
- coach roofs
22 more phrasesFewer phrases
- gable roofs
- green roofs
- barrel roofs
- family roofs
- French roofs
- hipped roofs
- peaked roofs
- saddle roofs
- square roofs
- gambrel roofs
- lantern roofs
- mansard roofs
- pitched roofs
- built-up roofs
- catslide roofs
- sunshine roofs
- butterfly roofs
- low-slope roofs
- steep-slope roofs
- roofs over the heads
- roofs over one's head
- protected membrane roofs
Words that rhyme with roofs
Questions about roofs
- What is roofs the plural of?
- Roofs is the plural of roof.
- How do you pronounce roofs?
- Roofs is pronounced /ɹuːvz/ (UK).
Words near roofs in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: roofs (page history and authors); roof (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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