an 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豪华顶层公寓
Topics Buildingsc2Oxford Collocations DictionaryPenthouse is used before these nouns: See full entry Word OriginMiddle 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.
