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.
IDIOMS
shout, etc. sth from the rooftops to talk about sth in a very public way:
He was in love and wanted to shout it from the rooftops.
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