Definitions for roof

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roof roof

Spelling: [roof, roo f]

IPA: /ruf, rʊf/

Roof is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 7 points.

You can make 17 anagrams from letters in roof (foor).

Definitions for roof

noun

1. the external upper covering of a house or other building.
2. a frame for supporting this:
3. the highest part or summit:
4. something that in form or position resembles the roof of a house, as the top of a car, the upper part of the mouth, etc.
5. a house.
6. Mining. the rock immediately above a horizontal mineral deposit.

Idioms

1. go through the roof, to increase beyond all expectations: Also, hit the roof. Informal. to lose one's temper; become extremely angry.
2. raise the roof, Informal. to create a loud noise: to complain or protest noisily:

verb (used with object)

1. to provide or cover with a roof.

Origin of roof

before 900; Middle English (noun); Old English hrōf; cognate with Dutch roef cover, cabin, Old Norse hrōf

Examples for roof

From the roof of the barn is a long loop of rope, through this the turkey is suspended by its legs.

It was a great room, but the roof came down to the floor nearly all round.

Finished the hut, pugging it at the ends, and making the roof better.

Yeah, I mean, as far as Maggie goes, her reducing a church to just “four walls and a roof” says a lot about the character.

It might be an evil start to come to his door so late and claim the shelter of his roof.

We were on her roof talking and trying to come up with ideas, to think of alternatives to renting a studio.

Which is why you should: “Clap along, if you feel like a room without a roof.”

Never, while she lived, would she dwell beneath John Lambert's roof again.

Going higher yet, till she all but reached the roof, the stair brought her to a door.

Some wielding signs hit the roof, windshield, and body of the car I was traveling in.