rooftop garden
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3.9
- noun
- /ˈruːfˌtɑːp ˈɡɑːrdən/
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jardín en la azotea
- The rooftop garden provides a beautiful place to relax and enjoy the view.
- balconies and rooftop gardens
Examples
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I've scheduled your farewell party for tomorrow afternoon on the rooftop garden.
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A twisting wooden stair within a tall cube of glass will lead to a lush rooftop garden - a place to escape.
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"I know a place with a rooftop garden."
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There's a rooftop garden and a garden in the back.
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Four towers pop up from the rooftop garden and act as natural wells to bring daylight into the lower levels.
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But a while back, I read about some communities in New York City coming together to share the work and bounty of rooftop gardens.
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Rooftop gardens are growing in popularity in notoriously smoggy Mexico City.
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Students survey plants in October on the new rooftop garden atop the P.S. 64 Robert Simon School complex on the Lower East Side in New York City.
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After a science teacher began gardening with planters in an area accessible only by climbing out a classroom window, the school recently opened a rooftop garden called the Fifth Street Farm.
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On September 1st, Iimura Kazuki opened Omotesando Farm, a rooftop garden rental space in a central upscale commercial and residential district.
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Synonyms
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An area of land next to a house where people grow flowers or vegetables
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A garden on the flat roof of a building where people grow plants or relax
How Developed
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3.9
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a garden situated on the roof' is directly and transparently derived from combining 'rooftop' (the top of a building) with 'garden' (a plot for plants). This noun–noun compounding follows a common compositional pattern found across languages, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily infer the MWE meaning.
Etymology
Rooftop garden comes from the simple image of a garden built on a roof, a green place 'on top of a building' where people relax or grow vegetables. So, rooftop garden today means 'a garden on the top of a building', used for relaxing, growing plants, or adding green space.