loft
/lɔft/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.51 in modern English
7
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
1
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
An attic or similar space (often used for storage) in the roof of a house or other building.
Countable; Uncountable
noun
An attic or similar space (often used for storage) in the roof of a house or other building.
Countable; Uncountable
noun
A residential flat (apartment) on an upper floor of an apartment building.
American usage; Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "an artist's loft"
- "maximum loft"
- "a choir loft"
- "a Manhattan loft"
- "Today, with a loft in Manhattan and a condo in Century City, they are the epitome of the bi-coastal couple."
- "Releasing some of the 12,000 racing pigeons that had arrived by special train (in foreground) at Dumfries Station for a race to their home lofts in Lanarkshire and West Lothian"
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”).
Origin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /lɔft/
- British English: /lɒft/
Usage
Inflected Forms
lofts (plural)
lofts (present, singular)
lofting (participle, present)
lofted (participle, past)
lofted (past)
more loft (comparative)
most loft (superlative)