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rooftop

/ˈɹuːfˌtɒp/US/ˈɹufˌtɑp/

rooftop noun: the area atop a roof.

rooftop: the area atop a roof
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Noun

rooftop (plural rooftops)

  1. (formal) The area atop a roof.
    • In love, however, women are brave. How many clamber over rooftops of houses and palaces, and are still doing it, when their lovers await them!1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 47
    • Why do you think the rooftop of their apartment building is called "tar beach"? (Answers may vary.)1993, Liz Rothlein, Multicultural Books for Primary Grades
  2. The top layer of a roof; the material covering or composing a roof.
    • The house itself was a mound of red baked bricks and a tin rooftop.2012, Ernest Alanki, The Chocolate Shop Perverts

Proper noun capitalized: Rooftop

Rooftop

  1. Synonym of Roof, a Chinese constellation.
    Synonyms:
    Roof

rooftop meaning in Gujarati and Vietnamese

rooftop in Gujarati

રૂફટોપ

rooftop in Vietnamese

top surface of a roof
nóc

Examples of rooftop in a sentence

  • To understand the effects of the accident, we dropped a dummy from the rooftop.
  • Prague held on to its shimmering rooftops and medieval bridges built by Holy Roman emperors.
  • Gulls cawed and wheeled overhead, dropping splatty white cluster bombs on rooftops and pavements.

All 28 example sentences with rooftop

Synonyms of rooftop

Forms of rooftop

pluralrooftops

Plural of rooftop: rooftops

Origin of rooftop

From roof + top.

Words formed from rooftop

Phrases with rooftop

Questions about rooftop

What does rooftop mean?
Rooftop means the area atop a roof.
What is rooftop in Gujarati?
Rooftop in Gujarati is રૂફટોપ. See Rooftop meaning in Gujarati.
What part of speech is rooftop?
Rooftop can be a noun or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce rooftop?
Rooftop is pronounced /ˈɹuːfˌtɒp/ (UK).
What is the plural of rooftop?
The plural of rooftop is rooftops.

Words near rooftop in the dictionary

  1. roofspalls
  2. roofstone
  3. roofstones
  4. rooftile
  5. rooftiles
  6. rooftop
  7. Rooftop of the World
  8. rooftopper
  9. rooftoppers
  10. rooftopping
  11. rooftops

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Adapted from Wiktionary: rooftop (page history and authors); Rooftop (page history and authors); rooftop (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). 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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