penthouse
noun
an apartment or dwelling on the roof of a building, usually set back from the outer walls.
penthouses
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pluralof penthouse.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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It now offers 53 loft-style homes and eight penthouses.
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 30, 2026
The most expensive penthouses in the Bugatti Residences By Binghatti building will include large, private lifts for the owner's cars, so they can park them inside their apartments.
From BBC ● Jan. 11, 2026
“So you have venture investors talking about AI and then $50 million penthouses all in the same episode. We’ll see if people like it. I don’t know.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2025
Attas has seen it all, from opulent penthouses to homes she describes in her new memoir, “Pets and the City,” as “so squalid I feared for my life just breathing in the air.”
From New York Times ● Jun. 19, 2024
Here, the rocks rose again in wild shapes, forming natural caverns and penthouses.
From Basil by Wilkie Collins
