attic

plural attics

1. The space, often unfinished and with sloped walls, directly below the roof in the uppermost part of a house or other building, generally used for storage or habitation.

   We went up to the attic to look for the boxes containing our childhood keepsakes.

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   In my Wonderland, I'm back on my Alice Back in my palace, I'm fly like Aladdin Serving my fans all my dope, 'cause they addicts Haters mad 'cause I'm on top like an attic And if it's beef then we're shooting sporadic Game is like Disney, my words are like magic

   2018, “Cash Maniac”, performed by Denzel Curry

   Synonyms: loft, garret

2. architectureA storey or a parapet above the cornice of a classical façade, often decorated.
3. slangA person's head or brain.

   […] was a diminutive, forked-radish sort of a young man, very fashionably attired, or, as he would say, kiddily togg'd; and, though it was scarcely noon, he was rather queer in the attic; that is to say, not exactly sober.

   1875, John Wight, Mornings at Bow Street, page 105

   Synonyms: upper storey

comparative more Attic · superlative most Attic

1. Of or related to Attica, ancient Athens and its hinterland
   1. historicalSynonym of Athenian, of or related to the culture of ancient Athens.

      […] Aeschylus here, as elsewhere, made himself the legislator of all Attic tragedy.

      1924, Herbert Weir Smyth, “I. Introduction”, in Aeschylean Tragedy, page 31

      Synonyms: Athenian, of or related to the culture of ancient Athens

   2. historicalarchitectureOf or related to ancient Athenian architecture.
   3. historicalhuman sciencesOf or related to Attic Greek.
2. figurativelyMarked by the qualities traditionally considered characteristic of the ancient Athenians: classical, refined.

   , The distinction between the Attic and the Asiatic schools takes us back to antiquity. The former were regarded as concise and healthy, the latter as empty and inflated: […]

   1921, Quintilian, “Chapter X: Determination of Style”, in Harold Edgeworth Butler, transl., Instiutio Oratoria, page 611

1. abbreviationclippingClipping of Attic Greek, the dialect of Ancient Greek spoken in Attica, Euboea, and the northern coast of the Aegean Sea.