- the outside part of the roof of a building
- From the hill we looked out over the rooftops of Athens.
- The prisoners staged a rooftop protest.
Oxford Collocations DictionaryRooftop is used before these nouns:- antenna
- protest
- terrace
- …
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Idioms
See rooftop in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionaryshout, etc. something from the rooftops
- to talk about something in a very public way
- He was in love and wanted to shout it from the rooftops.
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