gable roof

Questions about gable roof

What does gable roof mean?

gable roof means "a double sloping roof with a ridge and gables at each end".

What is another word for gable roof?

Close synonyms include saddle roof, saddleback, saddleback roof. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is gable roof a common word?

gable roof is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.