roofings

as inceiling

Synonyms for roofings

noun top of a room

Antonyms for roofings

Word Origin & History

Old English hrof "roof, ceiling, top, summit; heaven, sky," also figuratively, "highest point of something," from Proto-Germanic *khrofam (cf. Old Frisian rhoof "roof," Middle Dutch roof, rouf "cover, roof," Dutch roef "deckhouse, cabin, coffin-lid," Middle High German rof "penthouse," Old Norse hrof "boat shed").

No apparent connections outside Germanic. "English alone has retained the word in a general sense, for which the other languages use forms corresponding to OE. þæc thatch" [OED]. Roof of the mouth is from late Old English. Raise the roof "create an uproar" is attested from 1860, originally in U.S. Southern dialect.

Example Sentences for roofings

These roofings are laid on over boards and secured in position by nails, the joinings being made watertight with cement.

Shelters were built, with panellings and roofings of corrugated iron.