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单词 attic
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attic1

noun ˈatɪkˈædɪk
  • A space or room inside or partly inside the roof of a building.

    顶楼;阁楼;屋顶室

    I discovered a dozen rolls of the original wallpaper in a tin trunk in the attic
    as modifier there are five attic bedrooms
    Example sentencesExamples
    • If you need extra space then the attic upstairs could be easily converted into two more rooms.
    • They had a small attic room in the roof which was full of old toys.
    • Hanging the towel on a heated rail to dry, I wandered back up to the attic room, combing my hair with my fingers.
    • There are five bedrooms, a lounge and bathroom on the first floor and two more bedrooms in the attic.
    • The attic room was a lot bigger then she had imagined it to be and was set up with everything that she needed.
    • I was in a smaller room that was next to the stairs leading to the attic where the servants used to live.
    • Telli woke the next morning to the patter of rain on the roof above his attic room.
    • The agents suggest that the attic rooms could be used as play areas or a study.
    • The space between the attic and the rest of the house is lined with aluminium for insulation.
    • Subject to planning permission, there is potential to convert the unused floored attics in these bedrooms into further accommodation.
    • He was particularly interested in the attics of old buildings, where he sometimes found valuable artefacts among the rubbish.
    • The office was in the attic of one of those six storey buildings in South Kensington.
    • Spare bedrooms or large closets make good drying rooms, but hot attics and damp cellars generally do not.
    • Air also enters the living space from other unheated parts of the house, such as attics, basements, or crawl spaces.
    • The house now has three bedrooms and a fourth in the attic with a sloping roof that is perfect for his grandchildren.
    • Nests may be built in trees and shrubs but are frequently found under building overhangs, in attics, barns, garages and sheds.
    • There is a spacious attic bedroom, which could also be suitable for use as a study or home office.
    • Five steep steps led to a low-ceilinged attic bathroom with permanently dim lighting.
    • After turning off the lamp in the attic, she headed back downstairs and into the dark hallways of the school.
    • Within minutes the fire had spread upstairs, trapping the teenager in her attic bedroom.
    Synonyms
    loft, roof space, cock loft
    garret, mansard, loft conversion
    informal, dated sky parlour

Origin

Late 17th century (as an architectural term designating a small order (column and entablature) above a taller one): from French attique, from Latin Atticus 'relating to Athens or Attica'.

  • Attic originally referred to an arrangement of small columns at the top of a building. It is from French attique, from Latin Atticus ‘relating to Athens or Attica’, from the type of architecture found there. The phrase attic storey, used from the mid 18th century, described a low space above the main tall façade, which eventually gave attic the sense ‘highest storey of a building’.

Rhymes

achromatic, acrobatic, Adriatic, aerobatic, anagrammatic, aquatic, aristocratic, aromatic, asthmatic, athematic, autocratic, automatic, axiomatic, bureaucratic, charismatic, chromatic, cinematic, climatic, dalmatic, democratic, diagrammatic, diaphragmatic, diplomatic, dogmatic, dramatic, ecstatic, emblematic, emphatic, enigmatic, epigrammatic, erratic, fanatic, hepatic, hieratic, hydrostatic, hypostatic, idiomatic, idiosyncratic, isochromatic, lymphatic, melodramatic, meritocratic, miasmatic, monochromatic, monocratic, monogrammatic, numismatic, operatic, panchromatic, pancreatic, paradigmatic, phlegmatic, photostatic, piratic, plutocratic, pneumatic, polychromatic, pragmatic, prelatic, prismatic, problematic, programmatic, psychosomatic, quadratic, rheumatic, schematic, schismatic, sciatic, semi-automatic, Socratic, somatic, static, stigmatic, sub-aquatic, sylvatic, symptomatic, systematic, technocratic, thematic, theocratic, thermostatic, traumatic

Attic2

adjective ˈatɪkˈædɪk
  • Relating to ancient Athens or Attica, or the dialect of Greek spoken there.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • There were also fragments of earlier unglazed Corinthian and Attic lamps of the second to fourth centuries.
    • The Persians marched across the Attic peninsula and burned Athens.
    • As in the main scene, she wears a high-crested Attic helmet.
    • The religious vision from which Attic tragedy emerged was one of the human community as a kind of besieged citadel.
    • It is written in Attic Greek, with much studiedly antithetical rhetoric and frequent verbal borrowings from the classical authors.
    • Fluent in English, Spanish, French, German, Attic Greek, and Latin in addition to his native Dutch, he turned out to be a sharp and engaging philosophy student.
    Synonyms
    ancient greek, grecian, hellenic
noun ˈatɪkˈædɪk
mass noun
  • The dialect of Greek used by the ancient Athenians. It was the chief literary form of classical Greek.

Origin

Late 16th century: via Latin from Greek Attikos.

attic1

nounˈædɪkˈadik
  • A space or room just below the roof of a building.

    顶楼;阁楼;屋顶室

    I discovered a dozen rolls of the original wallpaper in a tin trunk in the attic
    as modifier there are five attic bedrooms
    Example sentencesExamples
    • After turning off the lamp in the attic, she headed back downstairs and into the dark hallways of the school.
    • He was particularly interested in the attics of old buildings, where he sometimes found valuable artefacts among the rubbish.
    • The attic room was a lot bigger then she had imagined it to be and was set up with everything that she needed.
    • Spare bedrooms or large closets make good drying rooms, but hot attics and damp cellars generally do not.
    • The house now has three bedrooms and a fourth in the attic with a sloping roof that is perfect for his grandchildren.
    • They had a small attic room in the roof which was full of old toys.
    • Telli woke the next morning to the patter of rain on the roof above his attic room.
    • Nests may be built in trees and shrubs but are frequently found under building overhangs, in attics, barns, garages and sheds.
    • Air also enters the living space from other unheated parts of the house, such as attics, basements, or crawl spaces.
    • The agents suggest that the attic rooms could be used as play areas or a study.
    • Five steep steps led to a low-ceilinged attic bathroom with permanently dim lighting.
    • Hanging the towel on a heated rail to dry, I wandered back up to the attic room, combing my hair with my fingers.
    • Subject to planning permission, there is potential to convert the unused floored attics in these bedrooms into further accommodation.
    • The office was in the attic of one of those six storey buildings in South Kensington.
    • I was in a smaller room that was next to the stairs leading to the attic where the servants used to live.
    • There is a spacious attic bedroom, which could also be suitable for use as a study or home office.
    • The space between the attic and the rest of the house is lined with aluminium for insulation.
    • If you need extra space then the attic upstairs could be easily converted into two more rooms.
    • There are five bedrooms, a lounge and bathroom on the first floor and two more bedrooms in the attic.
    • Within minutes the fire had spread upstairs, trapping the teenager in her attic bedroom.
    Synonyms
    loft, roof space, cock loft

Origin

Late 17th century (as an architectural term designating a small order (column and entablature) above a taller one): from French attique, from Latin Atticus ‘relating to Athens or Attica’.

Attic2

adjectiveˈædɪkˈadik
  • Relating to Athens or Attica, or the dialect of Greek spoken there in ancient times.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • The Persians marched across the Attic peninsula and burned Athens.
    • The religious vision from which Attic tragedy emerged was one of the human community as a kind of besieged citadel.
    • As in the main scene, she wears a high-crested Attic helmet.
    • Fluent in English, Spanish, French, German, Attic Greek, and Latin in addition to his native Dutch, he turned out to be a sharp and engaging philosophy student.
    • It is written in Attic Greek, with much studiedly antithetical rhetoric and frequent verbal borrowings from the classical authors.
    • There were also fragments of earlier unglazed Corinthian and Attic lamps of the second to fourth centuries.
    Synonyms
    ancient greek, grecian, hellenic
nounˈædɪkˈadik
  • The dialect of Greek used by the ancient Athenians, the chief literary form of classical Greek.

Origin

Late 16th century: via Latin from Greek Attikos.

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