Plural Of Roof Oxford English Dictionary

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Plural of roof oxford english dictionary. We use cookies to enhance your experience on our website including to provide targeted advertising and track usage. The plural of roof is roofs or 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. Tim climbed on to the garage roof.

Offices on the upper floors have access to a roof terrace. The oxford english dictionary lists rooves as an alternate to roofs one of several outdated spellings used in the uk and in new england as late as the 19th century. Rooves as a plural for of roof is dated but not incorrect. 1 the structure forming the upper covering of a building or vehicle.

Plural roofs ˈrüfs ˈru fs also ˈrüvz ˈru vz medical definition of roof 1. Rooves as a plural for of roof is dated but not incorrect. The oxford english dictionary lists rooves as an alternate to roofs one of several outdated spellings used in the uk and in new england as late as the 19th century. Meaning pronunciation picture example sentences grammar usage notes synonyms and more.

Get a rooves mug for your girlfriend yasemin. The top external level of a building. The roof of the car was not damaged in the accident. 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.

Houses in villages are commonly rectangular and are dried mud bamboo or red brick structures with thatch roofs. Australian children right up to the 1980s for example were brought up with the word. Roof plural roofs or rooves the external covering at the top of a building. The corner of the classroom was damp where the roof had leaked.

The plural can be pronounced ruːfs or ruːvz. Rooves is an older form of the word and rarely used these days. Definition of plural 1 noun in oxford advanced learner s dictionary. A small stone cottage with a red slate roof.

Plural roofs pronunciation note. The roof of a building is the covering on top of it that protects the people and things inside from the weather. Offices on the upper floors have access to a roof terrace. The roof was blown off by the tornado.