attic
/ˈætɪk/
attic noun: 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.
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.
- In my Wonderland, I'm back on my Alice
Back in my palace, I'm fly like Aladdin
Serving my fans all my dope, 'cause they addicts
Haters mad 'cause I'm on top like an attic
And if it's beef then we're shooting sporadic
Game is like Disney, my words are like magic2018, “Cash Maniac”, performed by Denzel Curry
- A storey or a parapet above the cornice of a classical façade, often decorated.
- A person's head or brain.
- […] 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.1875, John Wight, Mornings at Bow Street, page 105
- Synonyms:
- upper storey
Adjective capitalized: Attic
Attic (comparative more Attic, superlative most Attic)
- Synonym of Athenian, of or related to the culture of ancient Athens.
- […] Aeschylus here, as elsewhere, made himself the legislator of all Attic tragedy.1924, Herbert Weir Smyth, “I. Introduction”, in Aeschylean Tragedy, page 31
- Synonyms:
- Athenian, of or related to the culture of ancient Athens
- Of or related to ancient Athenian architecture.
- Of or related to Attic Greek.
- Marked by the qualities traditionally considered characteristic of the ancient Athenians: classical, refined.
- , The distinction between the Attic and the Asiatic schools takes us back to antiquity. The former were regarded as concise and healthy, the latter as empty and inflated: […]1921, Quintilian, “Chapter X: Determination of Style”, in Harold Edgeworth Butler, transl., Instiutio Oratoria, page 611
Proper noun capitalized: Attic
Attic
- Clipping of Attic Greek, the dialect of Ancient Greek spoken in Attica, Euboea, and the northern coast of the Aegean Sea.
attic meaning in Hindi, Urdu, Bengali and Telugu
attic in Hindi
- space directly below the roof
- अटारी aṭārī
attic in Urdu
- space directly below the roof
- اٹاری aṭārī
attic in Bengali
- অ্যাটিক
attic in Telugu
- space directly below the roof
- అటక aṭaka
More languagesFewer languages
- attic in Malayalam
- ആറ്റിക്ക്
- attic in Gujarati
- એટિક
- attic in Odia
- ଆଟିକ, ଆଟିକ୍
- attic in Arabic
- عِلِّيَّة ʕilliyya
- attic in Malay
- loteng
- attic in Indonesian
- loteng
- attic in Persian
- زیرشیروانی
- attic in Thai
- ห้องใต้หลังคา hɔ̂ng-dtâi-lǎng-kaa, ห้องเพดาน hɔ̂ng-pee-daan
- attic in Vietnamese
- gác, gác xép
- attic in Myanmar
- သင်္ဘောကြမ်း sangbhau:kram:
Examples of attic in a sentence
- The book had lain on the attic floor until it was found decades later.
- Junk piled on the floor as we searched the attic for the old photograph albums.
- There would be much more room in the attic if you had nested all the empty boxes.
Synonyms of attic
- loft
- garret
- upper storey
- Athenian
- of or related to the culture of ancient Athens
- top floor
Forms of attic
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | attics |
| Adjective | |
| comparative | more Attic |
| superlative | most Attic |
Origin of attic
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).
From Latin Atticus, from Ancient Greek Ἀττικός (Attikós), from some Pre-Greek demonym or toponym for Athens and its hinterland of Attica + -ικός (-ikós, “-ic: forming adjectives”). Equivalent to a modified and clipped Athens + -ic. Doublet of Atticus.
Words formed from attic
Phrases with attic
Words that rhyme with attic
- automatic
- chromatic
- emphatic
- static
- systematic
- idiomatic
- hexachromatic
- thematic
- aromatic
- democratic
- hepatic
- lymphatic
48 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- schematic
- adiabatic
- aristocratic
- asymptomatic
- athematic
- autocratic
- axiomatic
- chiasmatic
- erratic
- fanatic
- fluorochromatic
- interchromatic
- phlegmatic
- prismatic
- psychosomatic
- quadchromatic
- rheumatic
- sciatic
- stromatic
- aerobatic
- altermatic
- aposematic
- asthmatic
- bathochromatic
- bizygomatic
- bureaucratic
- chorochromatic
- chromocratic
- circumzygomatic
- coccochromatic
- curatic
- diabatic
- dyschromatic
- endolymphatic
- episematic
- epistatic
- frontozygomatic
- glymphatic
- goniochromatic
- graphematic
- herostratic
- hydroinformatic
- idiosyncratic
- immunochromatic
- infrazygomatic
- interzygomatic
- katabatic
- kinechromatic
Questions about attic
- What does attic mean?
- Attic means 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.
- What is attic in Hindi?
- Attic in Hindi is अटारी (aṭārī). See Attic meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is attic?
- Attic can be a noun, an adjective or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce attic?
- Attic is pronounced /ˈætɪk/.
- What is the plural of attic?
- The plural of attic is attics.
Words near attic in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: attic (page history and authors); Attic (page history and authors); attic (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); attic (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); attic (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); attic (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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