"rooftop" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

IPA: /ɹuːfˌtɒp/ [UK], /ɹufˌtɑp/ [US], /ɹʊfˌtɑp/ [US] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-rooftop.wav [Southern-England] Forms: rooftops [plural]
Etymology: roof + top Etymology templates: {{compound|en|roof|top}} roof + top Head templates: {{en-noun}} rooftop (plural rooftops)
  1. (somewhat formal) The area atop a roof. Tags: formal
    Sense id: en-rooftop-en-noun-qqqQ3TBW
  2. The top layer of a roof; the material covering or composing a roof. Categories (topical): Architecture Translations (top surface of a roof): ulkokatto (Finnish), vesikatto (Finnish), Hausdach [neuter] (German), 屋上 (okujō) (Japanese), tejado [masculine] (Spanish), nóc (Vietnamese)
    Sense id: en-rooftop-en-noun-aWIpIRzw Disambiguation of Architecture: 12 88 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 26 74 Disambiguation of 'top surface of a roof': 39 61
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Hypernyms: roof Derived forms: 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: desktop, hilltop, housetop, mountaintop, tabletop, treetop

Inflected forms

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