Penthouse

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. An apartment or dwelling situated on the roof of a building.
  • n. A residence, often with a terrace, on the top floor or floors of a building.
  • n. A structure housing machinery on the roof of a building.
  • n. A shed or sloping roof attached to the side of a building or wall.
  • n. Sports The sloping roof that rises from the inner wall to the outer wall surrounding three sides of the court in court tennis, off which the ball is served.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. An outhouse or other structure (especially one with a sloping roof) attached to the outside wall of a building.
  • n. An apartment or suite on the top floor of a tall building, especially one that is expensive or luxurious.
  • n. Any of the sloping roofs at the side of a real tennis court.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A shed or roof sloping from the main wall or building, as over a door or window; a lean-to. Also figuratively.
  • adj. Leaning; overhanging.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A shed or sloping roof projecting from a main wall or the side or end of a building, and sometimes constructed over a door or window to protect it from the weather; an appentice. See also cut under appentice.
  • n. Anything resembling a penthouse, or occupying the same relative position with regard to something else.
  • To provide with a penthouse or sloping roof; shelter or protect by means of a shed sloping from the wall, or of something resembling it.
  • n. In artillery, a frame structure sometimes used to protect a sea-coast gun-carriage from continuous severe weather: so made that it can quickly be put in place or removed.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. an apartment located on the top floors of a building
    • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    flat    apartment   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    leaning    overhanging    lean-to    pluteus   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    second-floor    fourth-floor    one-bedroom    second-story    mezzanine   
     
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