attic

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   of or relating to Attica or its inhabitants or to the dialect spoken in Athens in classical times

   Attic Greek.

2. 2
   noun

   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.

3. 3
   noun

   A person's head or brain.

   […] was a diminutive, forked-radish sort of a young man, very fashionably attired, or, as he would say, kiddily togg'd; and, though it was scarcely noon, he was rather queer in the attic; that is to say, not exactly sober.

4. 4
   noun

   (architecture) a low wall at the top of the entablature

From Latin Atticus, from Ancient Greek Ἀττικός (Attikós), from some Pre-Greek demonym or toponym for Athens and its hinterland of Attica + -ικός (-ikós, “-ic: forming adjectives”). Equivalent to a modified and clipped Athens + -ic. Doublet of Atticus.

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