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See also: Roof
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɹuːf/, /ɹʊf/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ɹuf/
- (Inland Northern American) IPA(key): /ɹʊf/
Audio (Inland Northern American): (file)
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ɹuːf/
- (Canada) IPA(key): /ɹuf/
- Rhymes: -ʊf, -uːf
Etymology 1
From Middle English rof, from Old English hrōf (“roof, ceiling; top, summit; heaven, sky”), from Proto-Germanic *hrōfą (“roof”).
Noun
roof (plural roofs or (UK, uncommon) rooves)
- (architecture) The external covering at the top of a building.
- The roof was blown off by the tornado.
- 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter I, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:
- 'Twas the house I'd seen the roof of from the beach.
- 1931, Robert L. May, Rudolph, The Red-Nosed Reindeer, Montgomery Ward, draft:
- The very first sound that you’ll hear on the roof
(Provided there’s fog) will be Rudolph’s small hoof.
- 1984, Rock Master Scott & the Dynamic Three, “The Roof Is on Fire”:
- The roof, the roof, the roof is on fire!
We don't need no water: Let the motherfucker burn!
Burn, motherfucker, burn!
- The top external level of a building.
- Let's go up to the roof.
- 1962, Gerry Goffin et al., “Up on the Roof”:
- When this old world starts getting me down
And people are just too much for me to face,
I climb way up to the top of the stairs
And all my cares just drift right into space
On the roof, it's peaceful as can be
And there, the world below can't bother me...
- The upper part of a cavity.
- The palate is the roof of the mouth.
- (mining) The surface or bed of rock immediately overlying a bed of coal or a flat vein.
- (climbing) An overhanging rock wall.
- (slang, archaic) A hat.
- 1857, Thomas Hughes, Tom Brown's School Days:
- 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.
Synonyms
Derived terms
- barrel roof
- blow the roof off
- built-up roof
- burn the roof
- butterfly roof
- catslide roof
- coach roof
- curb roof
- deck roof
- family roof
- fix the roof while the sun is shining
- French roof
- gable roof
- gambrel roof
- green roof
- hammer beam roof
- hip roof, hipped roof
- hit the roof
- house-roof
- lantern roof
- like a cat on a hot tin roof
- low-slope roof
- mansard roof
- moonroof
- moon roof
- M roof
- pavilion roof
- peaked roof
- pent roof
- pitched roof
- protected membrane roof
- pyramid hip roof
- pyramid roof
- raise the roof
- roof assembly
- roof-brain chatter
- roof comb
- roof curb
- roof deck
- roof garden
- roof knocking
- roof light
- roof of the mouth
- Roof of the World
- roof over one's head
- roof-plate
- roof prism
- roof rabbit
- roof rack
- roof rake
- roof rat
- roof riding
- roof square
- roof tax
- roof tile
- rooftile
- rooftop
- roof tree
- rooftree
- saddle roof
- shed roof
- single-ply roof
- snow on the roof
- snow on the roof top
- sod roof
- span roof
- square roof
- steep-slope roof
- sunroof
- sunshine roof
- through the roof
- tin roof ice cream
- tin roof pie
- tin roof sundae
- turf-roof
- turf roof
- under one roof
- under someone's roof
- unroof
- unroofed
- V roof
Translations
the cover at the top of a building
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the upper part of a cavity
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Etymology 2
From Middle English rofen, roven (“to roof”), from the noun (see above).
Verb
roof (third-person singular simple present roofs, present participle roofing, simple past and past participle roofed)
- (transitive) To cover or furnish with a roof.
- 1911, James George Frazer, The Golden Bough, volume 11, page 264:
- A trench about ten feet deep was dug in the ground and roofed over with sticks and earth so as to form a dark tunnel.
- To traverse buildings by walking or climbing across their roofs.
- (transitive, slang) To put into prison, to bird.
- 1998 March 4, “Law and Disorder”, in Beverly Hills, 90210, season 08, episode 22:
- Did you see them, David? I mean, did you see them looking at me? I-I'm walking out of the court, and everybody was practically – yeah, they were gawking. […] I mean, Noah roofed me, I proved it, end of story.
- 2000 January 1, “Stupid”, in Mr. Metaphor (lyrics), The Will Tell Compilation Vol. 1: Thats Right Inc., performed by Word A' Mouth, Block McCloud, and Mr. Metaphor:
- 2012 November 15, “Brown Bag Wrap”, in Rare Chandeliers, performed by Action Bronson:
- 2018 May 5, “Attempted 1.0”, AM (lyrics), performed by Skengdo & AM of 410:
- You don’t want war, you’re shook of it
Hella man dash when their friend got roofed
- (transitive) To shelter as if under a roof.
- 1903 September 28, Henry James, The Ambassadors, London: Methuen & Co. […], →OCLC:
- It built him softly round, it roofed him warmly over, it rested, all so firm, on selection.
Derived terms
Translations
to cover or furnish with a roof
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Dutch
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From Middle Dutch roof, from Old Dutch *rōf, *rouf, from Proto-West Germanic *raub, from Proto-Germanic *raubaz. More at robe.
Noun
roof m (plural roven, diminutive roofje n)
Derived terms
Descendants
Verb
roof
- inflection of roven:
Etymology 2
From Middle Dutch rōve. Cognate with Old High German ruf (Luxembourgish Roff), Old Norse hrufa (English dandruff). Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *krewp-.
Noun
roof f (uncountable)
Descendants
- Afrikaans: roof
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Middle English
Noun
roof
- alternative form of rof
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