housetop
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- noun
- /ˈhaʊstəp/
- Archaic
- On warm summer evenings, they often gathered on the housetop to watch the stars.
Examples
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Slatted wind-towers on housetops caught the breezes that ventilated homes.
Academic text (1994) -
Shout it from the housetops, but remember this, they hanged Burke, they mobbed Hare, but Dr. Knox is living like a gentleman in London.
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Up on the housetop quick, quick, quick
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"I am available for dancing in the streets and shouting from the housetops."
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Let the one who is on the housetop not go down to take what is in his house, and let the one who is in the field not turn back to take his cloak.
Blog text (14) -
What I say to you in the dark, tell in the light; and what you hear whispered, proclaim from the housetops.
Blog text (7) -
Black flakes of ash sailed over the housetops.
Fiction book (1995) -
The children climbed to the housetop to enjoy the view of the city.
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She could see her neighbors' gardens from the housetop of her house.
Synonyms
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The top surface of a building where people can stand
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Housetop is simply house + top, so it literally means the 'top' of a house. It is the same idea as rooftop, which is why housetop refers to the roof or the place on top of a house.