rooftop
See also: Rooftop
English
Etymology
roof + top
Noun
rooftop (plural rooftops)
- (somewhat formal) The area atop a roof.
- 1993, Liz Rothlein, Multicultural Books for Primary Grades
- Why do you think the rooftop of their apartment building is called "tar beach"? (Answers may vary.)
- 2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, pages 79-80:
- Riding the District west of Hammersmith, you immediately know something exciting is coming up, because at Ravenscourt Park you are level with the rooftops.
- 1993, Liz Rothlein, Multicultural Books for Primary Grades
- The top layer of a roof; the material covering or composing a roof.
- 2012, Ernest Alanki, The Chocolate Shop Perverts
- The house itself was a mound of red baked bricks and a tin rooftop.
- 2012, Ernest Alanki, The Chocolate Shop Perverts
Hypernyms
- roof
Derived terms
- rooftop of the world, an epithet of Tibet
- rooftopper
- rooftopping
- shout from the rooftops
Related terms
Related terms
- desktop
- hilltop
- housetop
- mountaintop
- tabletop
- treetop
Translations
top surface of a roof
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References
- “rooftop”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.