Noun: loft
Sample Sentences
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an artist's loft
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maximum loft
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a choir loft
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a Manhattan loft
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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:]
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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:]
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Eutychus […] fell down from the third loft. [1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Acts 10:9:]
Nouns inflected like loft
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. 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”).
2. 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.
3. Cognate with Scots loft, laft (“loft”), Irish lochta (“loft”). See: Middle English Nouns '
lofte', Old English Nouns '
lyft', Dutch Nouns '
lucht', German Nouns '
Luft', Old English Nouns '
lyft', Irish Nouns '
lochta'.
Verbs referencing "loft"
German Nouns
Lucht.