roof – English noun declension

English noun forms of roof

Noun: roof
Singularroof
Pluralroofs

Sample Sentences

  • The roof was blown off by the tornado.
  • 'Twas the house I'd seen the roof of from the beach. [1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter I, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:]
  • The very first sound that you’ll hear on the roof
  • (Provided there’s fog) will be Rudolph’s small hoof. [1931, Robert L. May, Rudolph, The Red-Nosed Reindeer, Montgomery Ward, draft:]
  • The roof, the roof, the roof is on fire!
  • We don't need no water: Let the motherfucker burn!
  • Burn, motherfucker, burn! [1984, Rock Master Scott & the Dynamic Three, “The Roof Is on Fire”:]
  • Let's go up to the roof.
  • When this old world starts getting me down
  • And people are just too much for me to face,
  • I climb way up to the top of the stairs
  • And all my cares just drift right into space
  • On the roof, it's peaceful as can be
  • And there, the world below can't bother me... [1962, Gerry Goffin et al., “Up on the Roof”:]
  • The palate is the roof of the mouth.
  • As Bent pulled away to the far post, Agbonlahor opted to go it alone, motoring past Gary Caldwell before unleashing a shot into the roof of the net. [2011 October 1, John Sinnott, “Aston Villa 2-0 Wigan”, in BBC Sport:]
  • Tom thought his cap a very knowing affair, but confessed that he had a hat in his hat-box; which was accordingly at once extracted from the hind-boot, and Tom equipped in his go-to-meeting roof, as his new friend called it. [1857, Thomas Hughes, Tom Brown's School Days:]

Nouns inflected like roof

smurf, brown dwarf, white dwarf, milf, poof, roof,

Etymology

1. From Middle English rhof, rof, roof, rooff, rufe, ruffe, from Old English hrōf (“roof; heaven, sky”), from Proto-West Germanic *hrōf, from Proto-Germanic *hrōfą (“roof”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱrapo- (“roof”), from *krāwə- (“to cover, heap”).
2. Cognates
3. Cognate with Dutch roef (“cabin on a boat”), Faroese rógv (“roof”); also Czech, Polish, and Slovene strop (“ceiling”), Russian строп (strop, “attic, loft, roof”), Serbo-Croatian стро̏п, strȍp (“ceiling”). See: Middle English Nouns 'rhof', Dutch Nouns 'roef', Faroese Nouns 'rógv', Russian Nouns 'строп'.

Verbs referencing "roof"

Swedish Nouns ruff, Russian Nouns строп, Russian Nouns стропило.