Loft Meaning
/lɒft/Definition, CEFR level B2, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
nounAir, the air; the sky, the heavens.
nounAn attic or similar space (often used for storage) in the roof of a house or other building.
Sentence Examples
There is plenty of space in the loft for storage.
A loft conversion can add considerable value to a property.
CEFR Practice Quiz
The artist converted the empty ____ above the garage into a studio.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The artist converted the spacious ____ of the old warehouse into a beautiful and modern living space today.
Word Origin & History
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”). Doublet of lift and luft. Related to aloft. Cognate with Scots loft, laft (“loft”), Irish lochta (“loft”).
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"Today, with a loft in Manhattan and a condo in Century City, they are the epitome of the bi-coastal couple."
— 1989 July 1, Jan Herman, “Sitcom face of Harry Groener also familiar on stage”, in Los Angeles Times, Entertainment and Arts:
"Releasing some of the 12,000 racing pigeons that had arrived by special train (in foreground) at Dumfries Station for a race to their home lofts in Lanarkshire and West Lothian"
— 1954 April, “The Why and the Wherefore”, in Railway Magazine, page 292, photo caption:
"Eutychus […] fell down from the third loft."
— 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Acts 10:9:
"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."
— 2011 September 28, Tom Rostance, “Arsenal 2 - 1 Olympiakos”, in BBC Sport:
"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."
— 2004, Wallace Akin, The Forgotten Storm:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
The artist converted the empty ____ above the garage into a studio.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The artist converted the spacious ____ of the old warehouse into a beautiful and modern living space today.