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rooves

/ɹuːvz/

rooves is the plural of roof.

Meaning of roof

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

See all 12 meanings of roof

Forms of rooves

alternative formroofs

Origin of rooves

From Middle English rooves, roves, from Old English hrōfas (nominative and accusative plural of hrōf (“roof”)); equivalent to roof + -s.

Phrases with rooves

Words that rhyme with rooves

Questions about rooves

What is rooves the plural of?
Rooves is the plural of roof.
How do you pronounce rooves?
Rooves is pronounced /ɹuːvz/.

Words near rooves in the dictionary

  1. rooty
  2. Rooty Hill
  3. rootzone
  4. rootzones
  5. rooved
  6. rooves
  7. rooves over one's head
  8. rooves over the heads
  9. rooyebok
  10. rooyeboks
  11. ROP

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Adapted from Wiktionary: rooves (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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