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ROOFTOP
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Dictionary entry overview: What does rooftop mean?
• ROOFTOP (noun)
The noun ROOFTOP has 1 sense:
1. the top of a (usually flat) roof
Familiarity information: ROOFTOP used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The top of a (usually flat) roof
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Hypernyms ("rooftop" is a kind of...):
top; top side; upper side; upside (the highest or uppermost side of anything)
Context examples
Your career will bring the kind of exciting news that will make you want to shout it from the rooftops.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
The team worked at the rooftop of a ten-story building that belongs to Brazil’s Institute of Physics (IF-USP) in the western part of São Paulo City — a site relatively distant from main traffic thoroughfares which means the aerosols measured there are ‘older’: they have already interacted with other substances present in the atmosphere.
(Ethanol to gasoline switch raises nanoparticles in air, SciDev.Net)
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