roof garden

noun

1. a garden on the flat roof of a house or other building.
2. the top or top story of a building, having a garden, restaurant, or the like.

roof garden

noun

1. a garden on a flat roof of a building

Word History and Origins

Origin of roof garden¹

An Americanism dating back to 1890–95

Example Sentences

It had 720 cramped rooms, but the shared spaces were luxe and plentiful and included a roof garden, solarium, library, gymnasium, swimming pool, music and art studios, TV room, dining room and coffee shop.

From Washington Post

They went up in the passenger elevator in the main building of the plant to a sort of glassed-in roof garden.

From Project Gutenberg

It had an indescribable roof garden cadence, and I found myself humming it delightedly.

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The New Yorker sat at a roof-garden table, ingesting solace through a straw.

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Me and Andy put up at a hotel that was built like something between a roof-garden and a sectional bookcase.

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Bobs own testimony, as to certain occurrences on that memorable roof-garden evening, wouldnt amount to much.

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