attic
Meaning of attic
- a space or room inside or partly inside the roof of a building.
I discovered a dozen rolls of the original wallpaper in a tin trunk in the attic
there are five attic bedrooms
late 17th century (as an architectural term designating a small order (column and entablature) above a taller one): from French attique, from Latin Atticus ‘relating to Athens or Attica’.
adjective
relating to ancient Athens or Attica, or the dialect of Greek spoken there.
noun
the dialect of Greek used by the ancient Athenians. It was the chief literary form of classical Greek.
late 16th century: via Latin from Greek Attikos .
Information about attic
- The plural form of attic is: attics.
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Hyphenation of attic
at-tic
- It consists of 2 syllables and 5 chars.
- attic is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
attic synonyms
Meaning Attic:
Meaning loft:
Meaning bean:
bean, bonce, noodle, noggin, dome
Meaning a roof which has four sloping sides, each of which becomes steeper halfway down:
Translation of attic
- German: Boden, Speicher, Söller
- Italian: attico
- Spanish: ático, buhardilla, desván
- French: grenier
- Portuguese: sótão
Anagrams of attic
Words that rhyme with attic
Attic, Hattic, upattic, Hymettic, Lettic, copesettic, lettic, stellettic, aryepiglottic, arytenoepiglottic, culottic, diglottic, epiglottic, glossoepiglottic, glottic, hyoepiglottic, idioglottic, infraglottic, isoglottic, neoglottic, periglottic, pharyngoepiglottic, phrenicoglottic, phrenoglottic, polyglottic, preepiglottic, proglottic, pseudoglottic, sansculottic, subepiglottic, subglottic, superglottic, supraglottic, tetraglottic, thyreoepiglottic, thyroepiglottic