roof
/ɹuːf/ noun A2- The external covering at the top of a building. · The roof was blown off by the tornado.
- The top external level of a building. · Let's go up to the roof.
- The upper part of a cavity. · The palate is the roof of the mouth.
- The surface or bed of rock immediately overlying a bed of coal or a flat vein.
- An overhanging rock wall.
Plural roofs
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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But Anne, with her elbows on the window sill, her soft cheek laid against her clasped hands, and her eyes filled with visions, looked out unheedingly across city roof and spire to that glorious dome of sunset sky and wove her dreams of a possible future from the golden tissue of youth’s own optimism.
Douglas under this roof.”
The houses of the Munchkins were odd-looking dwellings, for each was round, with a big dome for a roof.
Down on the roof so brown--
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