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loft

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”). Doublet of lift and luft. Related to aloft.

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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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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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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

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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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loft n (genitive singular lofts, nominative plural loft)

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

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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

 
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Etymology edit

From Old Norse lopt.

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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.

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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
 
loft

Etymology edit

Borrowed from English loft. Doublet of lift and luft.

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loft m inan

  1. loft apartment

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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 Polish dictionaries at PWN

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Noun edit

loft m (plural lofts)

  1. loft

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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

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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.

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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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