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.
Plural of roof oxford english dictionary.
Houses in villages are commonly rectangular and are dried mud bamboo or red brick structures with thatch roofs.
The plural of roof is roofs or rooves.
Definition of plural 1 noun in oxford advanced learner s dictionary.
Rooves as a plural for of roof is dated but not incorrect.
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The corner of the classroom was damp where the roof had leaked.
Hoi polloi live under roofs and civilized men live under rooves.
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.
Plural roofs pronunciation note.
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The top external level of a building.
She peered down the side of the building to see the roof of another structure less than five or six feet below.
Tim climbed on to the garage roof.
Australian children right up to the 1980s for example were brought up with the word.
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The roof was blown off by the tornado.
Offices on the upper floors have access to a roof terrace.
The plural can be pronounced ruːfs or ruːvz.
Offices on the upper floors have access to a roof terrace.
Roof plural roofs or rooves the external covering at the top 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The oxford english dictionary lists rooves as an alternate to roofs one of several outdated spellings used in the uk and in new england as late as the 19th century.
A small stone cottage with a red slate roof.
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The roof of the car was not damaged in the accident.
Rooves is an older form of the word and rarely used these days.