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How to pronounce “roof”
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Pronunciation guide for roof
- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of roof with real speech in context.
- Available examples
- 8 YouTube examples
- Real speech example
- NFL Senior VP
Nobody was in the building yet and they showed a clip of the Metrodome roof collapse back
- Definition summary
- (architecture) The external covering at the top of a building.
Example 1 of 8
How to pronounce roof
NFL Senior VP

Nobody was in the building yet and they showed a clip of the Metrodome roof collapse back
Example Sentences
A Deep Dive Into “roof”
Meaning
- [Noun]
- (architecture) The external covering at the top of a building.
- The top external level of a building.
- The upper part of a cavity.
- (mining) The surface or bed of rock immediately overlying a bed of coal or a flat vein.
- (climbing) An overhanging rock wall.
- (slang, archaic) A hat.
- [Verb]
- (transitive) To cover or furnish with a roof.
- To traverse buildings by walking or climbing across their roofs.
- (transitive, slang) To put into prison, to bird.
- (transitive) To shelter as if under a roof.
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