loft
/lɒft//lɔft/
loft noun: air, the air; the sky, the heavens. Also the ellipsis of pigeon loft.
Noun (1)
loft (countable and uncountable, plural 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.
- 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
- Today, with a loft in Manhattan and a condo in Century City, they are the epitome of the bi-coastal couple.1989 July 1, Jan Herman, “Sitcom face of Harry Groener also familiar on stage”, in Los Angeles Times, Entertainment and Arts
- 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.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Acts 10:9
Verb
loft (third-person singular simple present lofts, present participle lofting, simple past and past participle 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.2011 September 28, Tom Rostance, “Arsenal 2 - 1 Olympiakos”, in BBC Sport
- 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.2004, Wallace Akin, The Forgotten Storm
- 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.1853, Parliamentary Papers, House of Commons and Command, (Please provide the book title or journal name)
- 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.2010, Casey Lewis, Knack Dorm Living, page 15
Adjective
loft (comparative more loft, superlative most loft)
Noun (2) capitalized: LOFT
LOFT (plural LOFTs)
Proper noun capitalized: Loft
Loft (plural Lofts)
- A surname.
Also used as
loft is also the ellipsis of pigeon loft.
loft meaning in Hindi, Marathi, Urdu and Bengali
loft in Hindi
- an attic or similar space
- मचान macān
loft in Marathi
- लाफ्ट, लॉफ्ट, लोफ्ट
loft in Urdu
- لوفٹ, لافٹ
loft in Bengali
- লফ্ট, লফট
More languagesFewer languages
- loft in Telugu
- లాఫ్ట్, లోఫ్ట్
- loft in Malayalam
- ലോഫ്റ്റ്
- loft in Punjabi
- ਲੌਫਟ, ਲੋਫਟ
- loft in Gujarati
- લોફ્ટ, લાફ્ટ
- loft in Odia
- ଲଫ୍ଟ, ଲାଫ୍ଟ, ଲୋଫ୍ଟ
- loft in Nepali
- लोफ्ट, लफ्ट, लाफ्ट
Examples of loft in a sentence
- We're getting a loft con done next year.
- There's a lot of storage in the loft.
- When the school year finished, he put all of his stationery away in the loft, as he would have no need for pencils and exercise books during the holidays.
Synonyms of loft
- loss of fluid test
Forms of loft
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | lofts |
| plural | LOFTs |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | lofts |
| present participle | lofting |
| past participle | lofted |
| past | lofted |
| Adjective | |
| comparative | more loft |
| superlative | most loft |
| Proper noun | |
| plural | Lofts |
Origin of loft
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”).
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.
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Questions about loft
- What does loft mean?
- Loft means air, the air; the sky, the heavens.
- What is loft in Hindi?
- Loft in Hindi is मचान (macān). See Loft meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is loft?
- Loft can be a noun, a verb, an adjective or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce loft?
- Loft is pronounced /lɒft/ (UK).
- What is the plural of loft?
- The plural of loft is lofts.
Words near loft in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: loft (page history and authors); LOFT (page history and authors); Loft (page history and authors); loft (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); loft (Urdu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); loft (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); loft (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); loft (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); loft (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); loft (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); loft (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); loft (Nepali, 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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