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penthouse
[ pent-hous ]
noun
- an apartment or dwelling on the roof of a building, usually set back from the outer walls.
- any specially designed apartment on an upper floor, especially the top floor, of a building.
- a structure on a roof for housing elevator machinery, a water tank, etc.
- Also called pent, a shed with a sloping roof, or a sloping roof, projecting from a wall or the side of a building, as to shelter a door.
- any rooflike shelter or overhanging part.
- Court Tennis. a corridor having a slanted roof and projecting from three walls of the court.
penthouse
/ ˈpɛntˌhaʊs /
noun
- a flat or maisonette built onto the top floor or roof of a block of flats
- a construction on the roof of a building, esp one used to house machinery
- a shed built against a building, esp one that has a sloping roof
- real tennis the roofed corridor that runs along three sides of the court
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- penthouselike adjective
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Word History and Origins
Origin of penthouse1
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Origin of penthouse1
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Example Sentences
Then I was the December Penthouse Pet, which is a huge honor.
He's starting to sound like a schoolboy with a copy of Penthouse.
Loeb owns a $100 million penthouse on Central Park West and a $50 million yacht.
I was literally on the 18th floor in a penthouse suite and I really thought about ending it.
She flew first class, stayed in a luxury penthouse suite and was given money for shopping along with her pay.
It appeared to consist of a living-room and a scullery, with a patch under the skeleton of a sort of penthouse at the back.
Over the penthouse thus formed a piece of gauze is placed, and the cage is complete.
The penthouse, in fact, represented the principal part of its attire, there was nothing else but a little red petticoat.
In its middle there arose a penthouse, low and irregularly shaped like some organic outcropping of native rock.
He lies buried—in my name—within the walls of Penthouse Prison.
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