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roofnoun [ C ]

uk ​ /ruːf/ us ​ /ruːf/

A2 the covering that forms the top of a building, vehicle, etc.:

The house has a sloping/flat/tiled/thatched roof.
Put the luggage on the roof of the car.
The roof (= upper surface) of the cave is 50 metres up.
This cake is so dry that it sticks to the roof of your mouth (= upper surface of the mouth).

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Idiom(s)

go through the roof
raise the roof
a roof over your head
under sb's roof
under the same roof

roofverb [ T often passive ]

uk ​ /ruːf/ us ​ /ruːf/
-roofed
suffix uk ​ / -ruːft/ us ​ / -ruːft/

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a slate-roofed house

Phrasal verb(s)

roof sth in/over

(Definition of “roof” from the Cambridge Advanced Learner’s Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

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roofnoun [ C ]

us ​ /ruf, rʊf/

› the covering that forms the top of a building, vehicle, or other object:

The school has a flat roof.

› The roof of your mouth is the mouth’s upper, inside surface:

Peanut butter sticks to the roof of your mouth.
roof
verb [ T ] us ​ /ruf, rʊf/

›

They roofed the house with old-fashioned shingles.

Idiom(s)

a roof over your head

(Definition of “roof” from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

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