Definitions for penthouse

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penthouse pent·house

Spelling: [pent-hous]

IPA: /ˈpɛntˌhaʊs/

Penthouse is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 405 anagrams from letters in penthouse (eehnopstu).

Definitions for penthouse

noun

1. an apartment or dwelling on the roof of a building, usually set back from the outer walls.
2. any specially designed apartment on an upper floor, especially the top floor, of a building.
3. a structure on a roof for housing elevator machinery, a water tank, etc.
4. Also called pent, pentice [pen-tis] /ˈpɛn tɪs/ (Show IPA). 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.
5. any rooflike shelter or overhanging part.
6. shed roof.
7. Court Tennis. a corridor having a slanted roof and projecting from three walls of the court.

Origin of penthouse

1520-30; alteration (by folk etymology) of Middle English pentis Old French apentiz, equivalent to apent past participle of apendre to hang against (see appendant

Examples for penthouse

I was literally on the 18th floor in a penthouse suite and I really thought about ending it.

Loeb owns a $100 million penthouse on Central Park West and a $50 million yacht.

Nicholas was watching him from under the penthouse of his eyebrows.

This formed a species of penthouse, which they placed in the moat.

Then I was the December penthouse Pet, which is a huge honor.

Either way, this is a conversation that is occurring not just at the penthouse level, but among the grassroots as well.

The arrows aimed at them rebounded from the roof of the penthouse.

It is the diminutive of pluteus, a shed or penthouse, from its conical cap.

The car whisked them up to the penthouse which topped it, and they landed on the terrace.

He's starting to sound like a schoolboy with a copy of penthouse.