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Definition: Attic |
AtticAdjective1. Of or relating to Attica or its inhabitants or to the dialect spoken in Athens in classical times; "Attic Greek". Noun1. Floor consisting of open space at the top of a house just below roof; often used for storage. 2. The dialect of Ancient Greek spoken and written in Attica and Athens. 3. Informal terms for a human head. 4. (architecture) a low wall at the top of the entablature; hides the roof. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "Attic" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1550. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Dream Interpretation | To dream that you are in an attic, denotes that you are entertaining hopes which will fail of materialization. For a young woman to dream that she is sleeping in an attic, foretells that she will fail to find contentment in her present occupation. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
Energy | The usually unfinished space above a ceiling and below a roof. (references) |
Medicine | Portion of the tympanic cavity lying above the level of the tympanic membrane. Source: European Union. (references) |
Public Administration | A storey above the main entablature of a building and in strictly architectural relation to it. Source: European Union. (references) |
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Synonyms: AtticSynonyms: bean (n), bonce (n), dome (n), garret (n), loft (n), noggin (n), noodle (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Elegance | Adjective: elegant, polished, classical, Attic, correct, Ciceronian, artistic; chaste, pure, Saxon, academical. |
Receptacle | Attic, loft, garret, clerestory; cellar, vault, hold, cockpit; cubbyhole; cook house; entre-sol; mezzanine floor; ground floor, rez-de-chaussee; basement, kitchen, pantry, bawarchi-khana, scullery, offices; storeroom; (depository); lumber room; dairy, laundry. |
Refrigeration | Air conditioning, central air conditioning; air conditioner; fan, attic fan; dehumidifier. |
Summit | Attic, loft, garret, house top, upper story. |
Taste | Adjective: in good taste, cute, tasteful, tasty; unaffected, pure, chaste, classical, attic; cultivated, refined; dainty; esthetic, aesthetic, artistic; elegant; euphemistic. |
Wit | Noun: wit, humor, wittiness; sense of humor; attic wit, attic salt; atticism; salt, esprit, point, fancy, whim, drollery, pleasantry. |
Adjective: witty, attic; quick-witted, nimble-witted; smart; jocular, jocose, humorous; facetious, waggish, whimsical; kidding, joking, puckish; playful; merry and wise; pleasant, sprightly, light, spirituel, sparkling, epigrammatic, full of point, ben trovato; comic. | |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Attic |
| English words defined with "Attic": access, Amphidromical, attic fan, Attic story, Attical, Atticize ♦ get at ♦ Ionic dialect ♦ ransacking, rummage ♦ steep, store ♦ treasure trove. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "Attic": Attic Bird, Attic Boy, Attic Order, Attic Salt, Attic Science, Attic Vent, Attics, Attic Storey, Axiom of Choice ♦ Cathedral Ceiling/Roof, CHIMNEY REPAIRER ♦ EVAPORATIVE-COOLER INSTALLER ♦ Kneewall ♦ Russell's Attic ♦ Scuttle Hole ♦ Thermal Envelope Houses. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "Attic": Dittology. (references) |
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Screenplays | Wow, the attic. That is cool (Saved by the Bell; writing credit: Ana Maria Moretzsohn) | |
Lyrics | Let's hit the attic to hide out for bout two weeks (So Fresh, So Clean; performing artist: Outkast) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Monkeys in the Attic (1974) Three in the Attic (1968) Toys in the Attic (1963) Man in the Attic (1953) Static in the Attic (1939) | |
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 | In 1887, 27 year old Dr. Joseph Kinyoun set up his one person laboratory of hygiene to research cholera and other communicable diseases such as diphtheria, typhoid, small pox, typhus, plague and tuberculosis. This was the birth of NIH in a small attic room in the Marine Hospital in the village of Stapleton on Staten Island, New York. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist. |  | East (front) elevation. Photograph by Duane Garrett, 1976. (Reproduction Number: HABS ID,8-IDCI,10-1) When Idaho City's post office burnt to the ground in 1867, work on this new building began almost immediately. Completed in less than one month, the new post office and general store incorporated many fire-prevention measures, including metal shutters and doors. The new building also featured an attic floor of brick covered with earth for extra fire protection. Today, the building is the Boise Basin Museum, which is dedicated to Idaho’s Gold Rush. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | General view of circular stair, first floor, from the north. Photograph by Jack E. Boucher, September 1971. (Reproduction Number: HABS IN,39-MAD,1-11) This beautiful freestanding spiral staircase climbs from the first floor to the attic of the Captain Charles L. Shrewsbury House. Both the staircase and the house were designed by the architect Francis J. Costigan, a native of Baltimore who had moved to Indiana in 1837. Captain Shrewsbury, a wealthy shipping merchant who owned a fleet of Ohio River steamboats, raised his family of six children in this house and often welcomed state officials and other prominent citizens as his guests. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Attic room showing skylight, home of Mary Baker Eddy, Lynn, Massachusetts. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Attic black-figured amphora showing shoemaker's shop. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Family in an attic home with drying laundry. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Signal officers, in attic of farm house, watching the army of General Lee near Williamsport, Maryland. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Detail of Acadian house with outside stairway leading to attic. Near Breaux Bridge, Louisiana. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Tobacco around farmhouse and in attic. Northwest of Asheville, North Carolina. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Henry W. Bagley, Bellehaven, residence in Greenwich, Connecticut. Quarry cottage, attic bedroom. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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 | Attic door slowing swinging closed. |
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Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | In the attic, two garret rooms, with dormer windows, nests for servants |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | People cannot get rabies just from seeing a bat in an attic, in a cave, or at a distance. (references) | |
Travel | Kenya | Most housing has attic reserve water tanks. (references) |
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| "Attic" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 88.01% of the time. "Attic" is used about 633 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 88.01% | 557 | 11,224 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 11.83% | 75 | 38,535 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.16% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 633 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "Attic": attic apartment ♦ Attic base ♦ Attic calendar ♦ Attic faith ♦ attic fan ♦ Attic purity ♦ attic recess ♦ attic room ♦ attic salt ♦ Attic story ♦ attic style ♦ Attic wit ♦ False attic ♦ in the attic ♦ Russell's Attic. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "Attic": attic-full, attic-room, attic-story. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
attic fan | 753 | grandma attic | 40 |
attic | 280 | attic heirlooms | 40 |
annies attic | 224 | attic exhaust fan | 38 |
attic stairs | 218 | solar powered attic fan | 36 |
attic ladders | 188 | attic ladder | 32 |
attic ventilation | 161 | attic granny | 28 |
attic insulation | 136 | attic fan sports | 28 |
solar attic fan | 112 | sarahs attic | 26 |
attic vent | 84 | attic remodel | 26 |
attic bettys | 78 | toy in the attic | 26 |
flower in the attic | 77 | magic attic club | 25 |
attic stair | 73 | magic attic doll | 25 |
attic billy in joel song | 73 | attic insulation vermiculite | 23 |
the attic | 71 | attic fan installation | 23 |
attic treasure | 59 | attic fan motor | 22 |
attic conversion | 59 | attic bedroom | 22 |
attic broyhill heirlooms | 55 | attic grammas | 22 |
alishas attic | 47 | magic attic | 21 |
attic eddy | 44 | a light in the attic | 21 |
attic remodeling | 42 | attic ventilators | 21 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "Attic"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | Atties. (various references) | |
Albanian | atintan, athinas (athenian), papafingo (dormer, garret, loft), dialekti atintan i greqishtjes. (various references) | |
Arabic | العلية (causality), الإغريقي (greek), الأتيكية لغة أثينا, إغريقي (grecian), بسيط (chaste, crude, down to earth, elementary, homely, honest, innocent, low-browed, lowly, mere, modest, naive, natural, pastoral, petty, plain, primitive, provincial, rustic, silly, simple, simple minded, sparing, straightforward, unaffected, unpretentious, unsophisticated, unvarnished, with distortion). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | таван (ceiling, loft, roof), глава (beer, bulb, chief, chump, compartment, conk, crumpet, head, knob, loaf, nob, noddle, noggin, nut, onion, pate, poll, sconce, topknot), нисък етаж над корниз, мансарда (cockloft, garret, mansard). (various references) | |
Chinese | 閣" (garret, loft), 顶楼 (loft). (various references) | |
Czech | podkroví (cockloft, garret, loft-room), pùda (earth, Glebe, ground, land, loft, soil, terrain, virgin soil), mansarda. (various references) | |
Danish | loftsrum. (various references) | |
Dutch | zolderkamer (garret), dakkamertje (garret), Attisch. (various references) | |
Esperanto | atika, subtegmento, mansardo (garret). (various references) | |
Farsi | وابسته به شهراتن , اطاق کوچک زیرشیروانی . (various references) | |
Finnish | ylinen (loft, upper), vintti (loft, pole), ullakko (garret, loft), parvi (crowd, flock, garret, school, shoal, swarm). (various references) | |
French | mansarde (attic room), grenier. (various references) | |
Frisian | souder. (various references) | |
German | mansarde (attic (room), garret, mansard), Dachstube (attic room, garret), Dachkammer (garret), dachboden (loft). (various references) | |
Greek | σοφίτα (garret, loft, mansard). (various references) | |
Hebrew | עלית '' (garret, loft). (various references) | |
Hungarian | attikai, attika, tetőtér, padlás (loft), manzárd (garrett). (various references) | |
Indonesian | loteng (garret, loft, story). (various references) | |
Italian | soffitta (garret, loft, mansard, top floor), attico (loft, penthouse). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 屋 裏部屋 (garret, loft), 屋 裏 . (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | やねうらべや (garret, loft), やねうら. (various references) | |
Korean | 다락 (loft). (various references) | |
Manx | shamyr chlea, garrad (garret). (various references) | |
Norwegian | loft. (various references) | |
Papiamen | zolder. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | atticay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | Sótão (cockloft, garret, loft), ático. (various references) | |
Romanian | atic, pod (bridge, garret, loft), mansardå (garret), mansardã (french roof, garret, mansard, the attics), cucurigu (cock-a-doodle-doo). (various references) | |
Russian | чердак (cockloft, garret, loft). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | tavan (cockloft, garret), potkrovlje (loft), mansarda (cockloft). (various references) | |
Spanish | desván (garret, loft), ático (penthouse, top floor). (various references) | |
Sranan | sodro. (various references) | |
Swedish | vindsvåning. (various references) | |
Thai | ห้องใต้หลังคา (garret). (various references) | |
Turkish | atinalılarla ilgili, atika ile ilgili, tavanarası (garret, loft), ince (attenuate, brittle, civilized, courteous, dainty, delicate, fine, fragile, graceful, gracile, gracious, keen, lean, nice, polite, precision, refined, scarious, sharp, slender, slim, subtile, subtle, sylphish, sylphlike, sylphy, tenuous, thin, trickish, tricksy, tricky, urbane, vaporous), çatı odası, çatı katı (garret, penthouse). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | фронтон (frontispiece, fronton, gable, pediment), класичний (classic, classical), голова (bean, chair, chairman, chief, conk, head, nob, noddle, noggin, noodle, nut, onion, pate, president, topknot), витончений (airy, bijou, choice, curious, dainty, delicate, elegant, fastidious, fine, lepid, nice, rarefied, refined, slender, slinky, subtile, subtle, super, twee, zing), мезонін, мансарда (cockloft, mansard), афінський, дотепний (brainy, cute, dodgy, facetious, ingenious, jocular, nimble, nimble-witted, quick-witted, sharp, sharp-witted, spiritual, waggish, witty). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | hơi g n, ý nhị (spirituel). (various references) | |
Welsh | nennawr, nenlofft. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Greek | 700 BCE-300 CE | Attikos. (various references) |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | cenacula, cenaculi, cenaculis, cenaculo, cenaculum. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "Attic": atticism, atticisms, atticist, atticists, attics. (additional references) | |
Words containing "Attic": brattice, bratticed, brattices, bratticing, lattice, latticed, lattices, latticework, latticeworks, latticing. (additional references) | |
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"Attic" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: aetic, Aituc, altic, Altick, antti, artict, arttec, astetic, astic, astik, Atbc, atec, atek, Atfi, athi, athic, ati, atia, atic, atick, atie, Atik, Atikpo, Atisha, atoic, Atpc, atsic, atta, attaca, attact, Attal, attap, atthis, Attia, attice, attick, attict, Atticum, atticy, attix, Attoh, Attow, Attta, Attu, atui, erattic, etic, ettic, Itti, katti, tantic, tati, tatic. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "Attic" (pronounced a"tik) |
| 4 | a" t i k | acrobatic, aerobatic, aristocratic, aromatic, asthmatic, asymptomatic, autocratic, automatic, axiomatic, bureaucratic, charismatic, cinematic, climatic, democratic, diagrammatic, diplomatic, dogmatic, dramatic, ecstatic, electrostatic, emblematic, emphatic, enigmatic, enzymatic, erratic, fanatic, hepatic, homeostatic, idiomatic, idiosyncratic, lymphatic, mathematic, melodramatic, monochromatic, numismatic, operatic, pancreatic, phosphatic, pneumatic, posttraumatic, pragmatic, prismatic, problematic, programmatic, prostatic, psychosomatic, rheumatic, schematic, semiautomatic, static, symptomatic, systematic, technocratic, thematic, theocratic, traumatic, undemocratic, undiplomatic. |
| 3 | -t i k | acetic, acoustic, aesthetic, agnostic, alphabetic, altruistic, amniotic, anachronistic, analytic, anesthetic, antagonistic, Antarctic, antibiotic, antic, anticlimactic, antiseptic, aortic, apathetic, apocalyptic, apologetic, apoplectic, aquatic, arctic, arithmetic, arthritic, artistic, ascetic, astronautic, atavistic, atheistic, athletic, authentic, autistic, ballistic, bombastic, capitalistic, catalytic, cathartic, caustic, chaotic, characteristic, chauvinistic, chiropractic, climactic, coloristic, cosmetic, critic, cryptic, cultic, cystic, dendritic, despotic, deterministic, diabetic, diagnostic, dialectic, diamagnetic, didactic, dietetic, diuretic, domestic, drastic, drumstick, dualistic, dynastic, ecclesiastic, eclectic, ecliptic, elastic, electrolytic, electromagnetic, emetic, empathetic, energetic, enthusiastic, epigenetic, epileptic, erotic, euphemistic, evangelistic, exotic, expressionistic, extragalactic, fantastic, fatalistic, ferromagnetic, feudalistic, fiberoptic, frantic, frenetic, futuristic, galactic, genetic, geomagnetic, gigantic, granitic, gymnastic, halophytic, hectic, hedonistic, hemolytic, heretic, hermaphroditic, holistic, homiletic, humanistic, hyperkinetic, hypnotic, iconoclastic, idealistic, idiotic, imperialistic, impressionistic, individualistic, inelastic, interscholastic, jingoistic, journalistic, kinesthetic, kinetic, lactic, legalistic, linguistic, logistic, magnetic, majestic, masochistic, materialistic, mechanistic, militaristic, monastic, monopolistic, moralistic, mystic, narcissistic, narcotic, nationalistic, naturalistic, neritic, neurotic, novelistic, oligopolistic, onomastic, opportunistic, optic, optimistic, orthodontic, pantheistic, paralytic, paramagnetic, parasitic, parasympathetic, parthenogenetic, paternalistic, pathetic, patriotic, patristic, pectic, pedantic, peptic, peripatetic, pessimistic, phonetic, plastic, pluralistic, poetic, polytheistic, porphyritic, primitivistic, propagandistic, prophetic, prophylactic, prosthetic, psychoanalytic, psychotherapeutic, psychotic, puristic, quixotic, realistic, relativistic, ritualistic, robotic, romantic, rustic, sadistic, sarcastic, scholastic, semantic, semiotic, sensationalistic, septic, simplistic, skeptic, socialistic, statistic, stylistic, surrealistic, sycophantic, symbiotic, sympathetic, synergistic, synthetic, tactic, terroristic, therapeutic, thermoplastic, thrombolytic, transatlantic, triptych, unapologetic, unauthentic, uncharacteristic, unenthusiastic, unpatriotic, unrealistic, unsympathetic, voyeuristic. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: tacit. | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-i-t-t" | |
-1 letter: tact. | |
-2 letters: act, ait, att, cat, tat, tic. | |
-3 letters: ai, at, it, ta, ti. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-i-t-t" | |
+1 letter: attics, cattie, intact, static, tactic, tictac, tipcat. | |
+2 letters: astatic, astrict, atactic, catmint, cattail, cattier, catties, cattily, catting, cattish, cavetti, citator, citrate, dictate, ectatic, lattice, nictate, ricotta, statice, statics, tabetic, tachist, tacitly, tactics, tactile, taction, tantric, taxitic, tetanic, tictacs, tipcart, tipcats, titanic. | |
+3 letters: abstrict, activate, activist, activity, amitotic, anticity, anticult, apatetic, artifact, artistic, astricts, athletic, atrocity, atticism, atticist, autistic, bathetic, brattice, capitate, castrati, catamite, catfight, catmints, cattails, cattiest, cavitate, chapatti, chartist, chastity, chattier, chattily, chatting, chitchat, citation, citators, citatory, citrated, citrates, coattail, cogitate, cristate, dictated, dictates, dictator, distract, ecstatic, entastic, eustatic, excitant, incitant, interact, latticed, lattices, mastitic, nictated, nictates, oscitant, pathetic, pittance, protatic, ricottas, sanctity, scattier, scatting, staccati, statical, statices, staticky, stomatic, tabetics, tachiste, tachists, taciturn, tackiest, taconite, tactical, tactions, tailcoat, tantalic, tartaric, tenacity, tetanics, tetracid, tetradic, theatric, thematic, thetical, ticktack, tipcarts, toxicant, tractile, traction, tractive, trictrac, trifecta, triptyca, tunicate, urticant, urticate. | |
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