aloft
Use Aloft in a sentence
adverb
1.
high up; far above the ground.
2.
Nautical.
a.
on the masts; in the rigging; overhead.
b.
(on a square-rigged sailing ship) in the upper rigging, specifically, on or above the lower yards (opposed to alow ).
3.
in or into the air.
preposition
4.
on or at the top of: flags flying aloft the castle.
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| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
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| —adv, —adj | |
| 1. | in or into a high or higher place; up above |
| 2. | nautical in or into the rigging of a vessel |
| [C12: from Old Norse ā lopt in the air; see | |
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Word Origin & History
aloft
c.1200, from O.N. a lopti "up above," lit. "up in the air," from a "in, on" + lopt "sky, loft" (cf. Goth. luftus, O.H.G. luft, O.E. lyft "air;" see loft).
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Example sentences
At night they sleep aloft, high in the rain forest canopy.
As you walk in, one approaches with an eyebrow raised and nose aloft to give you the benefit of full-frontal froggy nostril.
It is a way to buy time, a stalling device that keeps the sentence aloft even when the air is no longer under its wings.
Wind aloft forecasts are a good indicator of where the weather is coming from.
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