penthouse

[pent·house]

A penthouse is fancy apartment on the very highest floor of a tall building. The penthouse can be a status symbol. Just ask the characters from The Jeffersons they moved on up to a “deluxe apartment in the sky.”

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A shed or roof sloping from the main wall or building, as over a door or window; a lean-to. Also figuratively.

Noun
an apartment located on the top floors of a building


n.
A shed or roof sloping from the main wall or building, as over a door or window; a lean-to. Also figuratively.

a.
Leaning; overhanging.


Penthouse

Pent"house` , n. [A corruption of pentice.] A shed or roof sloping from the main wall or building, as over a door or window; a lean-to. Also figuratively. "The penthouse of his eyes." Sir W. Scott.

Penthouse

Pent"house`, a. Leaning; overhanging. "Penthouse lid." Shak. "My penthouse eyebrows." Dryden.

A shed or roof sloping from the main wall or building, as over a door or window; a lean-to. Also figuratively.

Leaning; overhanging.

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Usage Examples

I realized that I loved using computers to create something, but being an architect just wasn't going to keep me interested. The idea of a life spent obsessing over bathroom details for an Upper East Side penthouse was pretty depressing.

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Other Usage Examples

When I was a little kid, all I wanted to do was to escape what I thought was the country and get to a city. Probably film and television had influenced me so much, I really thought the key to happiness was living a very artificial life in a penthouse in New York with martini glasses.

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