Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Lacking a roof.
- adjective Having no home or shelter; homeless or destitute.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having no roof: as, a roofless house.
- Having no house or home; unsheltered.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Having no roof.
- adjective Having no house or home; shelterless; homeless.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Without a
roof , open to the sky.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective not having a roof
- adjective physically or spiritually homeless or deprived of security
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Examples
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He could see, fading away into the blue distance, lines of open structures which he could only describe as roofless-and largely wall-less - buildings.
Tin 2010
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There was not even a respectable shade tree within twenty or thirty miles; in fact, the actual location of the nearest decent shade was a matter of vigorous debate in the offices—if you wanted to call a roofless barn and a couple of patched-up corrals offices—of the Hat Creek Cattle Company, half of which Augustus owned.
The Lonesome Dove Series Larry McMurtry 1995
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It recalled roofless heavens and boundless horizons.
The Boat of a Million Years Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1989
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There was not even a respectable shade tree within twenty or thirty miles; in fact, the actual location of the nearest decent shade was a matter of vigorous debate in the offices—if you wanted to call a roofless barn and a couple of patched-up corrals offices—of the Hat Creek Cattle Company, half of which Augustus owned.
Lonesome Dove Larry McMurtry 1985
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There was not even a respectable shade tree within twenty or thirty miles; in fact, the actual location of the nearest decent shade was a matter of vigorous debate in the offices — if you wanted to call a roofless barn and a couple of patched-up corrals offices — of the Hat Creek Cattle Company, half of which Augustus owned.
Lonesome Dove McMurtry, Larry 1985
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He could see, fading away into the blue distance, lines of open structures which he could only describe as roofless-and largely wall-less - buildings.
The Lost Worlds of 2001 Clarke, Arthur C. 1972
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The vehicle — a kind of roofless omnibus — started with
The Way Home 2003
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Samover then listed buildings that are slowly deteriorating, including a 17th-century merchant's home that has been roofless for a year and a modernist masterpiece open to the skies.
First they toppled the Moscow mayor, now they're after his sculptor Kathy Lally 2010
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Samover then listed buildings that are slowly deteriorating, including a 17th-century merchant's home that has been roofless for a year and a modernist masterpiece open to the skies.
First they toppled the Moscow mayor, now they're after his sculptor Kathy Lally 2010
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These intricately crafted log buildings, though now roofless, are still intact, though built over a century ago.
February 2009 2009
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