English Explanatory Dictionary

loft

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Air, the air; the sky, the heavens.
  2. An attic or similar space (often used for storage) in the roof of a house or other building.
  3. Such an attic used as an atelier.
  4. The thickness of a soft object when not under pressure.
  5. A gallery or raised apartment in a church, hall, etc.
  6. A residential flat (apartment) on an upper floor of an apartment building.
  7. Ellipsis of pigeon loft.
  8. The pitch or slope of the face of a golf club (tending to drive the ball upward).
  9. A lofted drive.
  10. A floor or room placed above another.
verb
  1. To propel high into the air.
  2. To fly or travel through the air, as though propelled
  3. To throw the ball erroneously through the air instead of releasing it on the lane's surface.
  4. To furnish with a loft space.
  5. To raise (a bed) on tall supports so that the space beneath can be used for something else.
adj
  1. Lofty; proud; haughty.
noun
  1. loss of fluid test
name
  1. A surname.

Pronunciation

/lɒft/ lŏft LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-loft.wav /lɔft/ lôft /lɑft/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-Wodencafe-loft.wav

Word forms

loft lofts lofting lofted more loft most loft

Etymology

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”).

Synonyms

loss of fluid test

Related words

lift aloft cockloft hayloft lofty reloft rood-loft LOCA RIA

Derived words

aloft bungaloft cornloft deloft flyloft hay loft loft bed loft bombing lofthead loftish loft ladder loftless loftlike loftmate loftsman mold loft organ loft pigeon loft rood-loft ropeloft sail loft toploftical lofted drive lofting iron

Translations

Bhojpuri: मचान Bulgarian: мансарда Catalan: àtic Catalan: golfes Czech: půda Danish: loft Dutch: zolder Finnish: ullakko French: grenier Galician: faiado Galician: barra Galician: sobrado Galician: rocho German: Dachboden German: Dachgeschoss Greek: σοφίτα Hebrew: עליית גג f aliyat gag Hindi: मचान Irish: lochta Italian: attico Italian: soffitta Italian: solaio Korean: 로프트 Ladin: sotët Ladino: shilvane Ladino: musandara Norman: solyi Norman: galetas Norwegian Bokmål: loft Norwegian Nynorsk: loft Polish: strych Polish: poddasze Portuguese: sótão Romanian: pod Russian: черда́к Spanish: desván Spanish: buhardilla Spanish: tapanco Spanish: zaquizamí Spanish: buharda Spanish: bohardilla Spanish: mansarda Spanish: entretecho Spanish: boardilla Swedish: vind Ukrainian: гори́ще Uzbek: chordoq Uzbek: cherdak Volapük: disnufaspadäd Welsh: llofft
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