penthouse
noun /ˈpenthaʊs/
/ˈpenthaʊs/
- enlarge imagean expensive and comfortable flat or set of rooms at the top of a tall building
顶层豪华公寓;阁楼套房 - a luxury penthouse suite
豪华顶层套房
Collocations DictionaryPenthouse is used before these nouns:- apartment
- flat
- suite
- …
词源Middle 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. - a luxury penthouse suite