penthouse
noun /ˈpenthaʊs/
/ˈpenthaʊs/
- an expensive and comfortable flat or set of rooms at the top of a tall building
enlarge image- a luxury penthouse suite
Oxford Collocations DictionaryPenthouse is used before these nouns:- apartment
- flat
- suite
- …
Word OriginMiddle English pentis (originally referring to an outhouse or shelter with sloping roof), shortening of Old French apentis, based on late Latin appendicium ‘appendage’, from Latin appendere ‘hang on’. The change of form in the 16th cent. was by association with French pente ‘slope’ and house.
