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Meaning of Loft | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C1 Standard
lɒft

Definitions

  1. Air, the air; the sky, the heavens.
    countable, obsolete, uncountable
  2. loss of fluid test
  3. A surname.
  4. An attic or similar space (often used for storage) in the roof of a house or other building.
    countable, uncountable
  5. Such an attic used as an atelier.
    countable, uncountable
  6. The thickness of a soft object when not under pressure.
    countable, uncountable
  7. A gallery or raised apartment in a church, hall, etc.
    countable, uncountable
  8. A residential flat (apartment) on an upper floor of an apartment building.
    US, countable, uncountable
  9. Ellipsis of pigeon loft.
    abbreviation, alt-of, countable, ellipsis, uncountable
  10. The pitch or slope of the face of a golf club (tending to drive the ball upward).
    countable, uncountable
  11. A lofted drive.
    countable, uncountable
  12. A floor or room placed above another.
    countable, obsolete, uncountable

Equivalents

Bosanski čardak
Čeština hůra podkroví půda
Deutsch Boden Dachgeschoss Empore Söller
Ελληνικά πατάρι
Español elevar
Français loft
हिन्दी दुछत्ती
Hrvatski čardak
Italiano catapultare loft
日本語
한국어 다락방
Српски čardak
Українська під піддашшя

Examples

“an artist's loft”
“maximum loft”
“a choir loft”
“a Manhattan loft”
“Today, with a loft in Manhattan and a condo in Century City, they are the epitome of the bi-coastal couple.”
“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”
“Eutychus […] fell down from the third loft.”

CEFR level

C1
Advanced
This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.
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