loft

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a room or open space directly beneath a roof, often used for storage

   The children climbed the wooden stairs to the barn loft.

2. 2
   noun

   a large, open upper floor or apartment, especially in a converted commercial building

   The old warehouse was converted into a bright loft with high ceilings.

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Simplified etymology

Loft came into Old English from Old Norse and originally meant “air” or “sky,” as well as something situated high in the air. Its modern sense of an upper room developed during Middle English, and it shares a Germanic root with lift.

From Middle English lofte, 'air, sky, upper room,' borrowed from Old Norse lopt, 'air, sky, upper chamber,' from Proto-Germanic *luftuz. It is a doublet of lift and is related to aloft. The architectural sense developed from the idea of an elevated space.

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