| 单词 | penthouse |
| 释义 | penthouse —penthouselike, adj. /pent"hows'/, n. , pl. penthouses /-how'ziz/. 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, esp. 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/. 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. See shed roof. 7. Court Tennis. a corridor having a slanted roof and projecting from three walls of the court. [1520-30; alter. (by folk etymology) of ME pentis < OF apentiz, equiv. to apent ptp. of apendre to hang against (see APPENDANT) + -iz (F -is) < VL *-aticium, n. use of neut. of *-aticius, equiv. to L -at(us) -ATE1 + -icius adj. suffix] |
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