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loft¹
- /lɒft/ UK
- /lɔft/ US
- /lɑft/ cot caught merger
Rhymes with -ɒft
Where it comes from
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 to aloft.
Cognate with Scots loft, laft (“loft”), Irish lochta (“loft”).
noun lofts
- Air, the air; the sky, the heavens.
- An attic or similar space (often used for storage) in the roof of a house or other building.
- Such an attic used as an atelier. an artist's loft
- The thickness of a soft object when not under pressure. maximum loft
- A gallery or raised apartment in a church, hall, etc. a choir loft
- A residential flat (apartment) on an upper floor of an apartment building. a Manhattan loft
- Ellipsis of pigeon loft Releasing some of the 12,000 racing pigeons that had arrived by special train (in foreground) at Dumfries Station for a race to their home lofts in Lanarkshire and West Lothian
- The pitch or slope of the face of a golf club (tending to drive the ball upward).
- A lofted drive.
- A floor or room placed above another. Eutychus […] fell down from the third loft.
verb lofts · lofting · lofted
- To propel high into the air. Marouane Chamakh then spurned a great chance to kill the game off when he ran onto Andrey Arshavin's lofted through ball but shanked his shot horribly across the face of goal.
- To fly or travel through the air, as though propelled When she saw houses lofting past her window, she ran to the child, who slept on a feather bed and she gathered the coverlet around them both.
- To throw the ball erroneously through the air instead of releasing it on the lane's surface.
- To furnish with a loft space. Two sisters, one under fifteen years of age, have lofted the house, so as to have a room for themselves.
- To raise (a bed) on tall supports so that the space beneath can be used for something else. Lofting a bed is much harder work than it seems, and pulling a nail out with the back of a hammer is much simpler than using your own nails.
adjective more loft · most loft
- Lofty; proud; haughty. A heart, where dread was never so imprest To hide the thought that might the truth advance; In neither fortune loft, nor yet represt
LOFT²
noun LOFTs
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Loft³
Where it comes from
Two main origins:
* From Middle English lofte (“loft, attic”), possibly a surname given to a household servant who worked in an upper chamber; see the noun loft.
* Borrowed from Danish Loft, a habitational surname.
proper noun Lofts
- A surname.
Thesaurus
Closest in meaning: garret, attic, pigeon loft, mezzanine, penthouse, dome, apartment, house, place, condo, cellar, flat, top, workshop, barn, studio
Translations
Every language
noun an attic or similar space
| Español | desván, buhardilla, tapanco, zaquizamí, buharda, bohardilla |
|---|---|
| 한국어 | 로프트 ropeuteu |
| हिन्दी | मचान macān |
| Português | sótão |
| Français | grenier |
| Deutsch | Dachboden, Dachgeschoss |
| Italiano | attico, soffitta, solaio |
| Ελληνικά | σοφίτα sofíta |
| Română | pod |
| Русский | черда́к čerdák |
| עברית | עליית גג f aliyat gag |
verb to propel high into the air
| Español | elevar |
|---|---|
| Italiano | catapultare |
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