ROOFED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does roofed mean? 

• ROOFED (adjective)
  The adjective ROOFED has 1 sense:

1. covered with a roof; having a roof as specified (often used in combination)

  Familiarity information: ROOFED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ROOFED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Covered with a roof; having a roof as specified (often used in combination)

Context example:

palmleaf-roofed huts

Domain usage:

combining form (a bound form used only in compounds)

Antonym:

roofless (not having a roof)

 Context examples 

The sight of him was like a whiff of South Down air coming into that low-roofed, oil-smelling room, and I ran forward to shake him by the hand.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The low-roofed, oak-panelled room into which he conducted them was brilliantly lit by four scented oil lamps.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Because of the low-roofed entrance the lynx could not leap in, and when she made a crawling rush of it the she-wolf sprang upon her and pinned her down.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

The outhouse was the simplest of dwellings, wooden-walled, shingle-roofed, one window beside the door and one on the farther side.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The houses of the old town—the side away from us—are all red-roofed, and seem piled up one over the other anyhow, like the pictures we see of Nuremberg.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

We held a housewarming in my hut the night it was roofed.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

It was a widespread, comfortable-looking building, two-storied, slate-roofed, with great yellow blotches of lichen upon the grey walls.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

There was a delightful door cut in the side, and it was roofed in, and there were little windows in it; but the wonderful charm of it was, that it was a real boat which had no doubt been upon the water hundreds of times, and which had never been intended to be lived in, on dry land.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

I will see, Mr. Utterson, said Poole, admitting the visitor, as he spoke, into a large, low-roofed, comfortable hall paved with flags, warmed (after the fashion of a country house) by a bright, open fire, and furnished with costly cabinets of oak.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

We passed along the low-roofed, devious corridors of the old-fashioned inn to the back of the house.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)