loft

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See also: LOFT, Loft, and løft

English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Middle English lofte (“air, sky, upper region, loft”), from Old English loft, (doublet of native Old English lyft) of North Germanic origin, from Old Norse lopt (“upper chamber, attic, region of sky, air”), from Proto-Germanic *luftuz (“air, sky”).

Akin to Scots lift (“air; sky; firmament”), Dutch lucht (“air”), German Luft (“air”), Old English lyft (“air”). More at lift, aloft.

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Noun[edit]

loft (plural lofts)

  1. (obsolete, except in derivatives) air, the air; the sky, the heavens.
  2. An attic or similar space (often used for storage) in the roof of a house or other building.
    1. Such an attic used as an atelier.
      an artist's loft
  3. (textiles) The thickness of a soft object when not under pressure.
    maximum loft
  4. A gallery or raised apartment in a church, hall, etc.
    an organ loft
  5. A residential flat (apartment) on an upper floor of an apartment building.
    a Manhattan loft
    • 1989 July 1, Jan Herman, “Sitcom face of Harry Groener also familiar on stage”, in Los Angeles Times‎[1], Entertainment and Arts:
      Today, with a loft in Manhattan and a condo in Century City, they are the epitome of the bi-coastal couple.
  6. (golf) The pitch or slope of the face of a golf club (tending to drive the ball upward).
  7. (obsolete) A floor or room placed above another.

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Verb[edit]

loft (third-person singular simple present lofts, present participle lofting, simple past and past participle lofted)

  1. (transitive) To propel high into the air.
    • 2011 September 28, Tom Rostance, “Arsenal 2 - 1 Olympiakos”, in BBC Sport‎[2]:
      Marouane Chamakh then spurned a great chance to kill the game off when he ran onto Andrey Arshavin's lofted through ball but shanked his shot horribly across the face of goal.
  2. (intransitive) To fly or travel through the air, as though propelled
    • 2004, Wallace Akin, The Forgotten Storm:
      When she saw houses lofting past her window, she ran to the child, who slept on a feather bed and she gathered the coverlet around them both.
  3. (bowling) To throw the ball erroneously through the air instead of releasing it on the lane's surface.
  4. (transitive) To furnish with a loft space.
    • 1853, Parliamentary Papers, House of Commons and Command, (Please provide the book title or journal name):
      Two sisters, one under fifteen years of age, have lofted the house, so as to have a room for themselves.
  5. (transitive) To raise (a bed) on tall supports so that the space beneath can be used for something else.
    • 2010, Casey Lewis, Knack Dorm Living, page 15:
      Lofting a bed is much harder work than it seems, and pulling a nail out with the back of a hammer is much simpler than using your own nails.

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Adjective[edit]

loft (comparative more loft, superlative most loft)

  1. (obsolete, rare) lofty; proud; haughty
    • 1542, Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, Epitath on Sir Thomas Wyatt the Elder:
      A heart, where dread was never so imprest
      To hide the thought that might the truth advance;
      In neither fortune loft, nor yet represt

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Danish[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Old Norse lopt (“attic, air”). Cognate to luft (“air”).

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Noun[edit]

loft n (singular definite loftet, plural indefinite lofter)

  1. attic, room immediately below the roof of a building
  2. ceiling, structure separating stories in a building
  3. (by extension) an upper limit to something

Declension[edit]

Declension of loft
neuter
gender 		Singular Plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative loft loftet lofter lofterne
genitive lofts loftets lofters lofternes

Icelandic[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Old Norse lopt.

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Noun[edit]

loft n (genitive singular lofts, nominative plural loft)

  1. air
    Synonym: andrúmsloft
  2. sky
    Synonym: himinn
  3. loft, attic
    Synonym: háaloft
  4. ceiling

Declension[edit]

declension of loft
n-s singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative loft loftið loft loftin
accusative loft loftið loft loftin
dative lofti loftinu loftum loftunum
genitive lofts loftsins lofta loftanna

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Norwegian Bokmål[edit]

Norwegian Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia no

Etymology[edit]

From Old Norse lopt.

Noun[edit]

loft n (definite singular loftet, indefinite plural loft, definite plural lofta or loftene)

  1. a loft or attic
  2. the ceiling of a room
  3. a two-storey medieval building

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Norwegian Nynorsk[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Old Norse lopt.

Noun[edit]

loft n (definite singular loftet, indefinite plural loft, definite plural lofta)

  1. a loft or attic
  2. a two-storey building made in medieval times or in a similar style

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Polish[edit]

Polish Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia pl

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from English loft, from Middle English lofte, from Old English loft, from North Germanic, from Old Norse lopt, from Proto-Germanic *luftuz.

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Noun[edit]

loft m inan

  1. loft apartment

Declension[edit]

Declension of loft
singular plural
nominative loft lofty
genitive loftu loftów
dative loftowi loftom
accusative loft lofty
instrumental loftem loftami
locative lofcie loftach
vocative lofcie lofty

Further reading[edit]

  • loft in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • loft in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Spanish[edit]

Noun[edit]

loft m (plural lofts)

  1. loft

Swedish[edit]

Noun[edit]

loft n

  1. a loft (attic or similar space directly beneath the roof of a building)
    Synonym: vindsutrymme
  2. (archaic) the upper floor (upstairs) of a two-story house
    Synonym: övervåning

Declension[edit]

Declension of loft 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative loft loftet loft loften
Genitive lofts loftets lofts loftens

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West Frisian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Old Frisian luft.

Noun[edit]

loft c (plural loften)

  1. sky
  2. group of clouds

Further reading[edit]

  • “loft”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011
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