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loft

Pronunciation: /lɒft/

The English word “loft” has 15 meanings listed here.

noun

  1. Air, the air; the sky, the heavens.
  2. An attic or similar space (often used for storage) in the roof of a house or other building.
  3. Such an attic used as an atelier.
  4. The thickness of a soft object when not under pressure.
  5. A gallery or raised apartment in a church, hall, etc.
  6. A residential flat (apartment) on an upper floor of an apartment building.
  7. The pitch or slope of the face of a golf club (tending to drive the ball upward).
  8. A lofted drive.
  9. A floor or room placed above another.

verb

  1. To propel high into the air.
  2. To fly or travel through the air, as though propelled
  3. To throw the ball erroneously through the air instead of releasing it on the lane's surface.
  4. To furnish with a loft space.
  5. To raise (a bed) on tall supports so that the space beneath can be used for something else.

adjective

  1. Lofty; proud; haughty.

Etymology

From Middle English lofte (“air, sky, upper region, loft”), from Old English loft, (doublet of native Old English lyft) of North Germanic origin, from Old Norse lopt (“upper chamber, attic, region of sky, air”), from Proto-Germanic *luftuz (“air, sky”). Akin to Scots lift (“air; sky; firmament”), Dutch lucht (“air”), German Luft (“air”), Old English lyft (“air”). Doublet of lift and luft. Related…

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