attics

Noun

attic (plural attics)

1. 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.

   Synonyms:

   loft, garret

2. A storey or a parapet above the cornice of a classical façade, often decorated.
3. (slang) 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

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