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attic
has definitions from the fields of architecture,anatomy,zoology,linguistics,Greek antiquity
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[ noun ] (architecture) floor consisting of open space at the top of a house just below roof; often used for storage
Used in print (John Dos Passos, Midcentury....)And there I was shacked_up with Eileen in that filthy fourth floor attic on Hudson_Street . (S. J. Perelman, The Rising Gorge. New York:...)Hastening to the attic , the temperature of_which was easily hotter than the Gold_Coast , you proceeded to mask the windows with a fancy wool coverlet , some khaki pants , and the_like , and to ransack the innumerable boxes and barrels stored there . |
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[ adjective ] (Greek antiquity) of or relating to Attica or its inhabitants or to the dialect spoken in Athens in classical times
Examples "Attic Greek" Used in print (Chester G. Starr, The Origins of Greek Civili...)The potters of the Aegean_islands thus stood apart from those of the mainland , and in Greece itself Argive , Corinthian , Attic , Boeotian , and other Geometric sequences have each their own hallmarks . Related terms |
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[ noun ] (linguistics,Greek antiquity) the dialect of Ancient Greek spoken and written in Attica and Athens
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[ noun ] (architecture) a low wall at the top of the entablature; hides the roof
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