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penthouse

/pent-hous/US // ˈpɛntˌhaʊs //UK // (ˈpɛntˌhaʊs) //

顶楼,顶层公寓,顶层楼房,顶层建筑

Related Words

hut小屋,小木屋,棚屋shack棚屋,棚户区,窝棚,棚子shanty棚户区,棚屋,棚户区改造,简陋flat平坦的,平地,平坦,平的residence居住地,住宅,住所,居住cave山洞,洞穴,洞窟,洞口suite套件,套套,套套房,套房accommodation住宿,食宿,住所,住处condo公寓,套房,公寓楼,套餐brood报窝,报盘,报窝子,报刊杂志addition增加,补充,加法,增加了shed棚子,棚,棚屋,大棚coop鸡舍,鸡笼,协同cooperative合作性,合作,合作性的,合作的dump倾倒,倾销,转储,甩掉pad垫子,衬垫,垫,垫板den穴位,窝点,巢穴,书店lodging住宿,住所,住房,住宿费rental租金,租赁,出租,租用walk-up走读,步行,走动式,走动

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural pent·hous·es [pent-hou-ziz]. /ˈpɛntˌhaʊ zɪz/.

    • : an apartment or dwelling on the roof of a building, usually set back from the outer walls.
    • : any specially designed apartment on an upper floor, especially the top floor, of a building.
    • : a structure on a roof for housing elevator machinery, a water tank, etc.
    • : Also called pent, pen·tice [pen-tis]. /ˈpɛn tɪs/. 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.
    • : any rooflike shelter or overhanging part.
    • : shed roof.
    • : Court Tennis. a corridor having a slanted roof and projecting from three walls of the court.

Synonyms & Antonyms

as inaerie
Synonyms
brood报窝,报盘,报窝子,报刊杂志
as inlean-to
Synonyms
hut小屋,小木屋,棚屋shack棚屋,棚户区,窝棚,棚子shanty棚户区,棚屋,棚户区改造,简陋addition增加,补充,加法,增加了shed棚子,棚,棚屋,大棚
as inapartment
Synonyms
accommodation住宿,食宿,住所,住处cave山洞,洞穴,洞窟,洞口condo公寓,套房,公寓楼,套餐flat平坦的,平地,平坦,平的residence居住地,住宅,住所,居住suite套件,套套,套套房,套房chambers分庭,会议室,分室,会议厅coop鸡舍,鸡笼,协同cooperative合作性,合作,合作性的,合作的den穴位,窝点,巢穴,书店digs挖掘,挖掘机,掘金,挖矿dump倾倒,倾销,转储,甩掉lodging住宿,住所,住房,住宿费pad垫子,衬垫,垫,垫板rental租金,租赁,出租,租用walk-up走读,步行,走动式,走动cold-water冷水,冷水型,凉水,冷水型的crash pad碰撞垫,崩溃的垫子,坠落垫,碰撞垫层living quarters宿舍,居住的,生活的宿舍,生活的宿舍里

Examples

  • Residents of Champlain Towers South were looking at a $15 million assessment to repair “major structural damage” flagged by engineers, with owners being asked to pay between roughly $80,000 for one-bedroom units to $336,000 for the penthouse.

  • When part of the tower fell last week, much of the penthouse apartment went with it.

  • Twice he rode the elevator to the penthouse level and walked through an unlocked door to the roof.

  • Some of my best memories are practices with my fellow Muses in the penthouse of McCormick with the afternoon sun filtering in.

  • In fact, he’s a record producer and label owner rich enough to own a cavernous penthouse whose rooftop pool offers a breathtaking skyline view.

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

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

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

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

  • She flew first class, stayed in a luxury penthouse suite and was given money for shopping along with her pay.

  • It appeared to consist of a living-room and a scullery, with a patch under the skeleton of a sort of penthouse at the back.

  • Over the penthouse thus formed a piece of gauze is placed, and the cage is complete.

  • The penthouse, in fact, represented the principal part of its attire, there was nothing else but a little red petticoat.

  • In its middle there arose a penthouse, low and irregularly shaped like some organic outcropping of native rock.

  • He lies buried—in my name—within the walls of Penthouse Prison.

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