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attic
1[ at-ik ]
noun
- the part of a building, especially of a house, directly under a roof; garret.
- a room or rooms in an attic.
- a low story or decorative wall above an entablature or the main cornice of a building.
- Anatomy. the upper part of the tympanic cavity of the ear.
Attic
2[ at-ik ]
adjective
- of, relating to, or characteristic of Greece or of Athens.
- (often lowercase) displaying simple elegance, incisive intelligence, and delicate wit.
noun
- the dialect of ancient Attica that became the standard language of Classical Greek literature in the 5th and 4th centuries b.c.
Attic
1/ ˈætɪk /
adjective
- of or relating to Attica, its inhabitants, or the dialect of Greek spoken there, esp in classical times
- often not capital classically elegant, simple, or pure
an Attic style
attic
2/ ˈætɪk /
noun
- a space or room within the roof of a house
- architect a storey or low wall above the cornice of a classical façade
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Example Sentences
She would periodically show up at the house and stay in the attic, where she hung beads and burned incense.
My bedroom was square and yellow and brand-new; this one was an attic with a gray-blue wall curling into its ceiling.
It might be on a closet shelf or perhaps in the attic, wrapped tightly in thick twine.
It comes out of the drawer, the attic, the trunk of your car with the first tease of spring.
Remember when “the madwoman in the attic” was more than just a metaphor for the female imagination?
The latter went immediately to look for his wife, and found her hidden in an attic, hanging to a beam.
From the time of Solon the Attic months were lunar, composed alternately of 30 and 29 days.
At the door of the lodging in the attic she stopped and tapped mysteriously; an old man brought forward a chair for her.
Chance ruled that Andrea's gaze, idle as it was from her sitting still to have her hair brushed, fell on Rousseau's attic.
The simplicity of the Attic writers would make Latin composition bald and tame.
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