HOUSETOP

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does housetop mean? 

• HOUSETOP (noun)
  The noun HOUSETOP has 1 sense:

1. the roof of a house

  Familiarity information: HOUSETOP used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HOUSETOP (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The roof of a house

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Context example:

shout it from the housetops

Hypernyms ("housetop" is a kind of...):

roof (a protective covering that covers or forms the top of a building)

 Context examples 

Nothing delighted you more than to have me tie my piece bags on your backs for burdens, give you hats and sticks and rolls of paper, and let you travel through the house from the cellar, which was the City of Destruction, up, up, to the housetop, where you had all the lovely things you could collect to make a Celestial City.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)