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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In 2014, she snapped up two penthouses in the chic Tribeca neighborhood for about $20 million and combined them into a nine-bedroom, nine-bath abode with beamed ceilings, a curved staircase, and enormous windows.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 7, 2026
Neymar is said to have paid $54m for one of the penthouses.
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
These latter are corroded by the weather, and leave the more compact projecting like the roofs of penthouses.
From Castles and Cave Dwellings of Europe by S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould
