rooftop

See also: Rooftop

English

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

Etymology

From roof +‎ top.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ɹuːfˌtɒp/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• (US) IPA^(key): /ɹufˌtɑp/, /ɹʊfˌtɑp/

Noun

rooftop (plural rooftops)

1. (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.

2. 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

• desktop
• hilltop
• housetop
• mountaintop
• tabletop
• treetop

Translations

top surface of a roof

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 屋頂面／屋顶面 (wūdǐngmiàn)

• 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.