Definitions for housetop

housetop house·top

Spelling: [hous-top]
IPA: /ˈhaʊsˌtɒp/

Housetop is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 245 anagrams from letters in housetop (ehoopstu).

Definitions for housetop

noun

  1. the top or roof of a house.

Idioms

  1. from the housetops, publicly; generally:

Origin of housetop

First recorded in 1520-30; house + top1

Examples for housetop

Why must we go to the housetop and shout our woes to the universe?

Is it upon the housetop, mother, having a spree all on its little alone?

There are some things which may be whispered in the closet, but should not be shouted on the housetop.

We now arrive at the vision which Peter saw upon the housetop.

Yet better to be the crystal and be broken, he felt, than the tile upon the housetop.

However, to dwell on the housetop is an expression which symbolizes desolation.

Over the housetop, from across the street, came the gay music of the fiddler.

It is the pulpit of the reformer and the housetop of the fanatic, this soap-box.

Would you have Crane get out on the housetop an' shout to you to go an' cruel Porter's mare?

I told her that I loved you, just as at that moment I might have shouted it from the housetop.

Word Value for housetop
Scrable

13

Words with friends

14

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