rooftop

See also: Rooftop

English

A panoramic view from the Château d'Annecy of the rooftops of buildings in Annecy, France

Etymology

roof +‎ top

Pronunciation

(UK) IPA^(key): /ɹuːfˌtɒp/
Audio (Southern England) (file)
(US) IPA^(key): /ɹufˌtɑp/, /ɹʊfˌtɑp/

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.
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.

Hypernyms

roof

Derived terms

cry from the rooftop
rooftop of the world, an epithet of Tibet
rooftopper
rooftopping
shout from the rooftops
snow on the rooftop
there may be snow on the rooftop but there is fire in the furnace

Related terms

Related terms

Translations

top surface of a roof

Chinese:
Mandarin: please add this translation if you can
Finnish: ulkokatto (fi), vesikatto (fi)
German: Hausdach (de) n
Japanese: 屋上 (ja) (okujō)
Spanish: tejado (es) m
Vietnamese: nóc (vi)

References

“rooftop”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

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