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Definition of Penthouse
1. Noun. An apartment located on the top floors of a building.
Definition of Penthouse
1. n. A shed or roof sloping from the main wall or building, as over a door or window; a lean-to. Also figuratively.
2. a. Leaning; overhanging.
Definition of Penthouse
1. Noun. (context: dated or historical) An outhouse or other structure (especially one with a sloping roof) attached to the outside wall of a building. ¹
2. Noun. An apartment or suite on the top floor of a tall building, especially one that is expensive or luxurious. ¹
3. Noun. Any of the sloping roofs at the side of a real tennis court. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Penthouse
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Penthouse
Literary usage of Penthouse
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"Opposite to the long ' penthouse is the main wall, in which there is at one point a
... In the inner wall, below the penthouse, there are several openings, ..."
2. A Concise Etymological Dictionary of the English Language by Walter William Skeat (1882)
"penthouse, a shed projecting from a building. ... (F. — L. ; and E.) This has
affected the sense of penthouse, though they mean quite different things. ..."
3. The Animal Kingdom Arranged in Conformity with Its Organization by Georges Cuvier, Edward Griffith, Charles Hamilton Smith, Edward Pidgeon, John Edward Gray, George Robert Gray (1830)
"... unite together, and with the os tympani by sutures, to cover all the region
of the temple with an osseous penthouse uninterrupted in its continuity. ..."
4. The Chief American Poets: Selected Poems by Bryant, Poe, Emerson, Longfellow by Curtis Hidden Page (1905)
"... Under the sycamore-tree were hives overhung by a penthouse, Built o'er a box
for the poor, or the blessed image of Mary. 70 Such as the traveller sees ..."
5. The New International Encyclopædia by Daniel Colt Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby (1903)
"On both sides of the door and along the wall are the remains of a penthouse
sustained by six pillars, of which the stune bases yet remain. ..."
6. The New Werner Twentieth Century Edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica: A (1907)
"A pass may uot be returned ; but a ball served, which has not gone across the
pass line on the penthouse, may be volleyed, although if untouched it might ..."
7. Massachusetts Reports: Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Judicial by Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (1914)
"At the trial of an action for the death of an employee of the defendant from
falling down a ventilating duct while working in a penthouse on the top of a ..."
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