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# 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rooftop/#m1)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rooftop/#x1)
- The cat walked along the rooftops. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rooftop/#x2)
- Our school has solar panels on the rooftop. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rooftop/#x3)
- The city has a rooftop garden. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rooftop/#x4)
- Snow covered the rooftops. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rooftop/#x5)
- She was so happy she wanted to shout it from the rooftops. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rooftop/#x6)

### 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.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/223-gulls-chip-thieves-rain-dances-and-salty-water/8/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «rooftop» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rooftop/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.