Meaning

9 senses
  1. (countable, uncountable)An attic or similar space (often used for storage) in the roof of a house or other building.

    Dachboden, Dachgeschoss

    черда́кčerdák

    гори́щеhorýšče

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

  2. An attic or similar space (often used for storage) in the roof of a house or other building.

    (countable, uncountable)Such an attic used as an atelier.

    an artist's loft

  3. (countable, uncountable)The thickness of a soft object when not under pressure.

    maximum loft

  4. (countable, uncountable)A gallery or raised apartment in a church, hall, etc.

    a choir loft

  5. (US, countable, uncountable)A residential flat (apartment) on an upper floor of an apartment building.

    a Manhattan loft

  6. (countable, uncountable)The pitch or slope of the face of a golf club (tending to drive the ball upward).

    (golf) the backward slant on the head of some golf clubs that is designed to drive the ball high in the air

  7. (countable, uncountable)A lofted drive.

  8. (countable, obsolete, uncountable)Air, the air; the sky, the heavens.

  9. (countable, obsolete, uncountable)A floor or room placed above another.

Examples

37 sentences
  1. Tobias was in his loft bedroom.

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  2. Alberto came up to the loft.

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  3. Who left the loft hatch open?

    deWer hat die Dachbodenluke offengelassen?

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  4. The loft is stiflingly hot in summer.

    deAuf dem Dachboden ist es im Sommer brütend heiß.

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  5. They found only old junk in the loft.

    deIn der Bodenkammer fanden sie nur alten Plunder.

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Translations

8 languages
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Русский
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Origin

From Middle English lofte (“air, sky, upper region, loft”), from Old English loft, (double

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”).

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Forms

plural: lofts
Singularloft
Plurallofts

regular

Synonyms

3 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • floor consisting of open space at the top of a house just below roof; often used for storage:atticgarret
  • a raised shelter in which pigeons are kept:pigeon loft

Word family

23 related words

See also

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