[at-ik] 
| 1. | the part of a building, esp. of a house, directly under a roof; garret. |
| 2. | a room or rooms in an attic. |
| 3. | a low story or decorative wall above an entablature or the main cornice of a building. |
| 4. | Anatomy. the upper part of the tympanic cavity of the ear. |
[at-ik] | 1. | of, pertaining to, or characteristic of Greece or of Athens. |
| 2. | (often lowercase ) displaying simple elegance, incisive intelligence, and delicate wit. |
| 3. | the dialect of ancient Attica that became the standard language of Classical Greek literature in the 5th and 4th centuries b.c. |
| at·tic (āt'ĭk) n.
[From Attic story, story of a building enclosed by one decorative structure placed above another, much taller decorative structure, usually involving the Attic order, an architectural order having square columns of any of the basic five orders, from French attique, from attique, Attic, from Latin Atticus; see Attic.] |
| At·tic (āt'ĭk) adj.
[Latin Atticus, from Greek Attikos, from Attikē, Attica.] |
attic at·tic (āt'ĭk)
n.
The upper portion of the tympanic cavity above the tympanic membrane that contains the head of the malleus and the body of the incus. Also called epitympanum.