housetop

[ hous-top ]
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noun
  1. the top or roof of a house.

Idioms about housetop

  1. from the housetops, publicly; generally: The day I got my promotion I wanted to shout it from the housetops.

Origin of housetop

1
First recorded in 1520–30; house + top1

Words Nearby housetop

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How to use housetop in a sentence

  • Once more, and at greater peril than ever, Jack went on the housetop to reconnoitre.

  • Let him sit with me here any night on my housetop and he will see the sad effects of sectarian reform and newspaper hysteria.

  • Again he dived at it, like a hawk after a pigeon, and again he zoomed up over the housetop.

    The Flying Reporter | Lewis E. (Lewis Edwin) Theiss
  • And again, how with the short gun I slew a pigeon on a housetop and tore the head from its body?

  • Looking down from a housetop the red fezzes and the gay-colored abas made the crowd look like a vast field of poppies.

    War in the Garden of Eden | Kermit Roosevelt

British Dictionary definitions for housetop

housetop

/ (ˈhaʊsˌtɒp) /


noun
  1. the roof of a house

  2. proclaim from the housetops to announce (something) publicly

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