Definitions of Penthouse [ˌhaʊ zɪz]

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Definition of 'Penthouse'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (n.) penthouse
an apartment or dwelling on the roof of a building, usu. set back from the outer walls.

2.  penthouse
any specially designed apartment on an upper floor, esp. the top floor, of a building.

3.  penthouse
a structure on a roof for housing elevator machinery, a water tank, etc.

4.  penthouse
a sloping roof or a shed with a sloping roof projecting from a wall or the side of a building, as to shelter a door.

Etymology: (1520–30; alter. (by folk etym.) of ME pentis < OF apentiz=apent, ptp. of apendre to hang against)

Definition of 'Penthouse'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (noun) penthouse
an apartment located on the top floors of a building

Definition of 'Penthouse'

Webster Dictionary

1. (adj) Penthouse
leaning; overhanging

2. (noun) Penthouse
a shed or roof sloping from the main wall or building, as over a door or window; a lean-to. Also figuratively

Translation of 'Penthouse'

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

Sense: a (usually luxurious) flat at the top of a building That apartment building has a beautiful penthouse; (
Afrikaans: dakwoonstel	Arabic: شَقَّة ذات سَقيفَه، شقَّة	Bulgarian: надстройка върху плосък п
Brazilian: cobertura	Czech: půdní byt	German: die Dachterrassenwohnung,
Danish: penthouse; penthouse-	Greek: ρετιρέ	Spanish: ático
Estonian: katuseelamu	Farsi: بالاترین طبقه برج	Finnish: kattohuoneisto
French: appartement de terrasse	Hebrew: דִירַת גַג	Hindi: इमारत के शीर्ष पर सुंदर फ
Croatian: luksuzan stan na vrhu neb	Hungarian: tetőlakás	Indonesian: flat di puncak gedung
Icelandic: þakíbúð	Italian: attico	Japanese: 屋上住宅
Korean: 고급옥상주택	Lithuanian: (prabangus) butas pastogė	Latvian: luksus dzīvoklis augšstāv
Malay: emper	Dutch: dakwoning, dak-	Norwegian: tak-/toppleilighet
Polish: luksusowe mieszkanie na d	Persian: بالاترین طبقه برج	Pashto: دالان، چتر، برنډه څپرۍ ځو
Portuguese: apartamento QUERY	Romanian: penthouse, apartament d	Russian: фешенебельная квартира в
Slovak: byt na streche	Slovenian: mansarda; mansarden	Serbian: potkrovlje
Swedish: takvåning	Thai: บ้านเล็กบนหลังคาตึก	Turkish: çatı katı
Taiwanese: 閣樓	Ukrainian: пентхауз	Urdu: سائبان، برآمدہ
Vietnamese: tầng mái	Chinese: 楼顶阁楼（的）
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