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Added 8 October 2026

loft

/lɒft/ noun

noun Definition from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA). Pronunciation from Wiktionary, via Kaikki.org. More about loft at Wordnik → Where our words come from →

Air, the air; the sky, the heavens.
An attic or similar space (often used for storage) in the roof of a house or other building. Such an attic used as an atelier.
an artist's loft
Such an attic used as an atelier.
an artist's loft

verb

To propel high into the air.
To fly or travel through the air, as though propelled
To throw the ball erroneously through the air instead of releasing it on the lane's surface.

adjective

Lofty; proud; haughty.

Origin

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”).

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