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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]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
[edit]- IPA(key): /ˈætɪk/, [ˈæɾɪk]
Audio (Southern England): (file)
- Rhymes: -ætɪk
Noun
[edit]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.
- (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
[edit]Translations
[edit]space, often unfinished and with sloped walls, directly below the roof
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See also
[edit]- atelier (artist or artisan's space, sometimes in an attic (loft))
Anagrams
[edit]Romanian
[edit]Adjective
[edit]attic m or n (feminine singular attică, masculine plural attici, feminine and neuter plural attice)
Declension
[edit]Declension of attic
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