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penthouse
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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a penthouse apartment (= on the top floor of a building ) ▪ She bought a penthouse apartment in Santa Monica. COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ NOUN apartment ▪ A chill suddenly struck her, as they left the Aston Martin and ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
pendize , early 14c., from Anglo-French pentiz , a shortening of Old French apentis "attached building, appendage," from Medieval Latin appendicium , from Latin appendere "to hang" (see append ). Modern spelling is from c.1530, by folk etymology influence ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Penthouse is an Australian television series which aired 1960 to 1961 on Sydney station ATN-7. It was a daytime series featuring Pat Firman (1922-1980) interviewing guests in a set designed to look like a penthouse. It was sponsored by Women's Day and Pix, ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Lean-to \Lean"-to`\, n. (Arch.) A shed or slight building placed against the wall of a larger structure and having a single-pitched roof; -- called also penthouse , and to-fall . The outer circuit was covered as a lean-to, all round this inner apartment. ...
Usage examples of penthouse.
If she bounced into the penthouse and blurted it out to Perrit, which she was certainly capable of, there was no way of telling how he might react.
I am to collect them from the penthouse apartment of the late Humpty Dumpty.
An ultra-condo would house five thousand or more families, ranging from proles on GAS in apartments on the lower levels, to the extremely wealthy in the rarefied heights, in swank penthouses and terrace apartments.
If Roux wanted to invade his penthouse, Garin was certain the old man could do it.
By the time that Sinker and Riff had come down the stairs from the penthouse, the space by the elevators had cleared.
She came to rest on seven-eights weight reduction, and even before the gangplanks were run out, the Kragans were dropping to the flat roof, running to stairhead penthouses and tossing grenades into them.
Las VegasCaptain Jeff Porte of the Las Vegas Police Department was having a tough time convincing the head of security for Dreamworld to allow him to enter the penthouse.
If he had inherited a million dollars twenty years ago he would have been a timeless and contented flaneur in a world of sleek penthouses, velvet smoking jackets, first editions, vintage wines, silk dressing gowns, and the conversation of connoisseurs.
EVENING, Under Secretary Lehmann summoned all those delegates and representatives sympathetic to his cause to his suite of rooms in the penthouse of the House of a Thousand Freedoms in Weimar.
When the elevator reached the penthouse level, Sartain rang the bell at the entrance.
In the penthouse living room, Alfred Sartain looked up toward the ace detective.
The fact that neither Alfred Sartain, nor Hunnefield, the secretary, had been slain in the penthouse broil, made him belittle the detectives.
Shadow leaned above Alfred Sartain that night in the penthouse studio.
It meant they could spend more time together, either in her rented cottage at Appletreewick, in Wharfedale, or at his modern executive-style penthouse apartment close to the centre of Heckley.
Romanesque aqueducts run into Art Deco penthouses run into opium dens run into Wild West saloons run into roller coasters run into small-town Carnegie libraries run into tract houses run into college lecture halls.