saddleback roof

Questions about saddleback roof

What does saddleback roof mean?

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

What is another word for saddleback roof?

Close synonyms include gable roof, saddle roof, saddleback. 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 saddleback roof a common word?

saddleback 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.