rooftop

«rooftop» in Mova's school dictionary: the outside top surface of a roof — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a rooftop, rooftops); adjective (rooftop: a rooftop garden)

meaning for a pupil

A rooftop is the outside top surface of a roof. tree →

sense in the lessons

In stories characters chase across rooftops or look over a city from a rooftop. In geography and science: rooftop solar panels and rooftop gardens. In safety: never climb onto roofs — falls are dangerous. Phrases: on the rooftop, across the rooftops, rooftop garden, shout it from the rooftops (tell everyone).

examples

• Pigeons sat on the rooftop. tree →
• The cat walked along the rooftops. tree →
• Our school has solar panels on the rooftop. tree →
• The city has a rooftop garden. tree →
• Snow covered the rooftops. tree →
• She was so happy she wanted to shout it from the rooftops. tree →

note

One word. Countable. Close to «roof», but rooftop means the top outside surface, often seen from above.

In the corpora

• Many gulls have moved into towns and nest on flat rooftops, because cities have food and safe roofs away from foxes.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «rooftop» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.