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4-letter words (1 found)

LOFT,

3-letter words (2 found)

LOT,OFT,

2-letter words (3 found)

LO,OF,TO,

You can make 6 words from loft according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of loft

loft

English

Etymology

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.

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /lɒft/, enPR: lŏft
  • (General American) IPA(key): /lɔft/, enPR: lôft
  • (cot–caught merger) IPA(key): /lɑft/, enPR: lŏft
  • Rhymes: -ɒft

Noun

loft (countable and uncountable, 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.
  3. (textiles, countable, uncountable) The thickness of a soft object when not under pressure.
  4. A gallery or raised apartment in a church, hall, etc.
  5. (chiefly US) A residential flat (apartment) on an upper floor of an apartment building.
  6. Ellipsis of pigeon loft.
  7. (golf) The pitch or slope of the face of a golf club (tending to drive the ball upward).
  8. (cricket) A lofted drive.
  9. (obsolete) A floor or room placed above another.

Derived terms

Related terms

  • lift (noun)

Translations

Verb

loft (third-person singular simple present lofts, present participle lofting, simple past and past participle lofted)

  1. (transitive) To propel high into the air.
  2. (intransitive) To fly or travel through the air, as though propelled
  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.
  5. (transitive) To raise (a bed) on tall supports so that the space beneath can be used for something else.

Derived terms

Translations

Adjective

loft (comparative more loft, superlative most loft)

  1. (obsolete, rare) lofty; proud; haughty

Related terms

Anagrams

  • FLOT

Danish

Etymology

From Old Norse lopt (“attic, air”). Cognate to luft (“air”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈlʌfd]

Noun

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

Declension

Icelandic

Etymology

From Old Norse lopt.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /lɔft/
  • Rhymes: -ɔft

Noun

loft n (genitive singular lofts, nominative plural loft)

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

Declension

Derived terms

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse lopt.

Noun

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

References

  • “loft” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
  • “loft” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse lopt.

Noun

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

References

  • “loft” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old English

Noun

loft f

  1. alternative form of lyft (“air”)

Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from English loft. Doublet of lift and luft.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈlɔft/
  • Rhymes: -ɔft
  • Syllabification: loft

Noun

loft m inan

  1. loft apartment

Declension

Further reading

  • loft in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Spanish

Noun

loft m (plural lofts)

  1. loft

Swedish

Noun

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

Declension

Derived terms

  • ha tomtar på loftet (“to be crazy”)

See also

  • vind (“attic”)

References

  • loft in Svensk ordbok (SO)
  • loft in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
  • loft in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

West Frisian

Etymology

From Old Frisian luft.

Noun

loft c (plural loften)

  1. sky
  2. group of clouds

Further reading

  • “loft”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011

Source: wiktionary.org