gambrel roof

1. 1.

   a gable roof with two slopes on each side and the lower slope being steeper

   Synonymsgambrel

   Broadergable roof

Questions about gambrel roof

What does gambrel roof mean?

gambrel roof means "a gable roof with two slopes on each side and the lower slope being steeper".

What is another word for gambrel roof?

Close synonyms include gambrel. 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 gambrel roof a common word?

gambrel 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.