Meaning

3 senses
  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.

    Dachgeschoss, Dachboden, Estrich

    черда́кčerdák, манса́рдаmansárda

    гори́щеhorýšče, манса́рдаmansárda, стрихstryx

    floor consisting of open space at the top of a house just below roof; often used for storage

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

  3. (slang)A person's head or brain.

    чердакčerdak, крышаkryša, башняbašnja

    informal terms for a human head

Examples

430 sentences
  1. There's ample room in the attic.

    На горищі достатньо місця. — ChickenKiev

    deAuf dem Speicher ist reichlich Platz. — Espi

  2. I went up to the attic.

    Я піднявся на горище. — olly

  3. Tom's kids were in the attic.

    Діти Тома були на горищі. — deniko

  4. What are you doing in the attic?

    Що ви робите на чердаку? — deniko

    ruЧто вы делаете на чердаке? — marafon

    deWas machen Sie auf dem Dachboden? — quicksanddiver

  5. Mary is rooting around in the attic for old photo albums.

    Мері шукає на горищі старі альбоми з фотографіями. — deniko · CC BY 2.0 FR

Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
space directly below the roof:
Русский
By meaning 2
space directly below the roof:
slang: person's head:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
space directly below the roof:

Origin

From the practice of decorating the top storey of building facades in the Attic architectu

From the practice of decorating the top storey of building facades in the Attic architectural style. From French attique, from Latin atticus, from Ancient Greek Ἀττικός (Attikós).

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Forms

plural: attics
Singularattic
Pluralattics

regular

Synonyms

12 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

7 related words

Collocations

3 patterns
  • in the attic
  • from the attic
  • to the attic

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
attic — meaning, examples, forms, synonyms | Krumeto