Plural Of Roof Oxford English Dictionary

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Plural of roof oxford english dictionary.

A small stone cottage with a red slate roof. Roof plural roofs or rooves the external covering at the top of a building. The oxford english dictionary lists rooves as an alternate to roofs one of several outdated spellings used in the uk and in new england as late as the 19th century. Ruːf word forms.

Offices on the upper floors have access to a roof terrace. Hoi polloi live under roofs and civilized men live under rooves. Houses in villages are commonly rectangular and are dried mud bamboo or red brick structures with thatch roofs. Rooves as a plural for of roof is dated but not incorrect.

Tim climbed on to the garage roof. The roof was blown off by the tornado. The corner of the classroom was damp where the roof had leaked. The vaulted upper boundary of the mouth supported largely by the palatine bones and limited anteriorly by the dental lamina and posteriorly by the uvula and upper part of the fauces.

She peered down the side of the building to see the roof of another structure less than five or six feet below. Plural roofs pronunciation note. The top external level of a building. The roof of a building is the covering on top of it that protects the people and things inside from the weather.

The plural of roof for people old enough to read the oxford dictionary of the english language in fact old enough to know that the real napoleon was not dynamite or a brandy. Definition of plural 1 noun in oxford advanced learner s dictionary. Rooves is an older form of the word and rarely used these days. The plural can be pronounced ruːfs or ruːvz.

The roof of the car was not damaged in the accident. Offices on the upper floors have access to a roof terrace. Meaning pronunciation picture example sentences grammar usage notes synonyms and more. The plural of roof is roofs or rooves.

Get a rooves mug for your girlfriend yasemin. 1 the structure forming the upper covering of a building or vehicle.