rooftop
nounUK /ˈɹuːfˌtɒp/ · US /ˈɹufˌtɑp/
Etymology From roof + top.
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 more examples
- Riding the District west of Hammersmith, you immediately know something exciting is coming up, because at Ravenscourt Park you are level with the rooftops.2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, pages 79–80:
- Its old town rises out of the Aegean Sea towards a clifftop Venetian castle in a jumble of white-washed narrow streets, flat rooftops and balconies that provide a perfect, obstacle-filled arena for parkour.2022 June 16, Issy Ronald, “Meet the parkour athletes defying fear and gravity at Red Bull Art of Motion”, in CNN, archived from the original on 26 Jun 2022:
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:
- Derived terms
- cry from the rooftop, foldable rooftop, folding rooftop, retractable rooftop, retracting rooftop, Rooftop of the World, rooftopper, rooftopping, shout from the rooftops, snow on the rooftop, there may be snow on the rooftop but there is fire in the furnace
- Hypernyms
- roof