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* Ottoman Turkish: {{t|ota|طوان|tr=tavan|sc=ota-Arab}} |
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* Persian: {{t|fa|زیرشیروانی|tr=zir-(e)-širvâni |
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* Plautdietsch: {{t|pdt|Bowabän|m}} |
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* Polish: {{t+|pl|strych|m}}, {{t+|pl|poddasze|n}}, {{t+|pl|mansarda|f}} |
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Revision as of 16:58, 16 March 2023
See also: Attic
English
Etymology
From the practice of decorating the top storey of building facades in the Attic architectural style. From French attique, from Latin atticus, from Ancient Greek Ἀττικός (Attikós).
Pronunciation
Noun
attic (plural attics)
- The space, often unfinished and with sloped walls, directly below the roof in the uppermost part of a house or other building, generally used for storage or habitation.
- We went up to the attic to look for the boxes containing our childhood keepsakes.
- Synonym: loft
- (slang) A person's head or brain.
- Synonym: upper storey
- 1875, John Wight, Mornings at Bow Street (page 105)
- […] was a diminutive, forked-radish sort of a young man, very fashionably attired, or, as he would say, kiddily togg'd; and, though it was scarcely noon, he was rather queer in the attic; that is to say, not exactly sober.
Derived terms
Translations
space, often unfinished and with sloped walls, directly below the roof
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Romanian
Adjective
attic m or n (feminine singular attică, masculine plural attici, feminine and neuter plural attice)
Declension
Declension of attic
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