family roof
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.52 in modern English
21
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see family, roof.
Example Sentences
- "1868, Frances Parthenope Verney, Stone Edge, Smith, Elder & Co. (publ.), page 56. And he took the big family roof and held it over them both."
- "Off went Dick, returning in two minutes with mamma's pretty sun-umbrella, papa's silk one with the ivory handle, and Dinah's family roof, an immense structure of whalebone and cotton, originally green, now faded and streaked with blue, black and yellow, till it looked like one vast bruise, — the stick as tough and substantial as Dinah herself, the handle an immense brass hook that Squeers himself might have envied."