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noun. An apartment or dwelling situated on the roof of a building.

noun. A residence, often with a terrace, on the top floor or floors of a building.

noun. A structure housing machinery on the roof of a building.

noun. A shed or sloping roof attached to the side of a building or wall.

noun. The sloping roof that rises from the inner wall to the outer wall surrounding three sides of the court in court tennis, off which the ball is served.

noun. A shed or sloping roof projecting from a main wall or the side or end of a building, and sometimes constructed over a door or window to protect it from the weather; an appentice. See also cut under appentice.

noun. Anything resembling a penthouse, or occupying the same relative position with regard to something else.

To provide with a penthouse or sloping roof; shelter or protect by means of a shed sloping from the wall, or of something resembling it.

noun. In artillery, a frame structure sometimes used to protect a sea-coast gun-carriage from continuous severe weather: so made that it can quickly be put in place or removed.

noun. A shed or roof sloping from the main wall or building, as over a door or window; a lean-to. Also figuratively.

adjective. Leaning; overhanging.

noun. An outhouse or other structure (especially one with a sloping roof) attached to the outside wall of a building.

noun. An apartment or suite on the top floor of a tall building, especially one that is expensive or luxurious.

noun. Any of the sloping roofs at the side of a real tennis court.

noun. an apartment located on the top floors of a building

"As a result of this gradual demotion to lower levels on the world’s luxury meters, the word penthouse may no longer suffice for that knock-me-out top-floor apartment."

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