Word Meanings - LOFT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

That which is lifted up; an elevation. Hence, especially: The room or space under a roof and above the ceiling of the uppermost story. A gallery or raised apartment in a church, hall, etc.; as, an organ loft. A floor or room placed above another;

Additional info about word: LOFT

That which is lifted up; an elevation. Hence, especially: The room or space under a roof and above the ceiling of the uppermost story. A gallery or raised apartment in a church, hall, etc.; as, an organ loft. A floor or room placed above another; a story. Eutychus . . . fell down from the third loft. Acts xx. 9. On loft, aloft; on high. Cf. Onloft. Chaucer. (more info) lyft air, G. luft, Dan. loft loft, Goth. luftus air. Cf. Lift, v. &

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