noun
roof
roof
noun
1
The structure covering the top of a building or vehicle.
"A tree branch fell and dented the car's roof."
"They replaced the leaking roof before winter set in."
verb
1
To cover something with a roof.
"The barn was roofed with corrugated metal sheets."
How to Use Roof
Learner’s notesIn plain EnglishThe top covering of a building, car, or other structure.
Common mistake
The plural is "roofs," not "rooves" — though "rooves" appears in some older or dialectal writing.
Common pairings
hit the roof
roof over your head
flat roof
thatched roof
Word Forms
roofed past tense, roofs plural, rooves plural, roofs singular
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Etymology
From Old English hrōf, an old Germanic word originally meaning both "roof" and, poetically, "the sky" — the covering over everything.