rooflight.

A glazed opening in a roof that admits daylight into the space below.

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Words that belong together

• flat rooflight
• overhead rooflight

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A narrow rooflight illuminated the stairs without exposing them to the street.

Usage notes

Primary category: architecture / spatial description. Forms: Singular rooflight; plural rooflights. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Commonness: moderately common.