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ROOF/ruːf/

A roof is the covering on the top of a building: a flat roof, on the roof, a hole in the roof. Ceiling is inside the room, above your head; roof is outside. Roof is countable: two roofs (not “rooves” in modern British English). The roof of the mouth is a later set phrase. Do not say “the roof of the room” for the inside — that is the ceiling.

Meaning

The covering on the top of a building.

Examples

• “Rain was coming through a hole in the roof.”
• “Birds were sitting on the roof of the shed.”
• “They are repairing the school roof this week.”

Good to know

on the roof / a hole in the roof. Inside: ceiling. Plural: roofs.

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