attic
a tik
- n floor consisting of open space at the top of a house just below roof; often used for storage
- n the dialect of Ancient Greek spoken and written in Attica and Athens and Ionia
- n informal terms for a human head
- n (architecture) a low wall at the top of the entablature; hides the roof
- a of or relating to Attica or its inhabitants or to the dialect spoken in Athens in classical times
- With a diary kept in a secret attic, she braved the Nazis and lent a searing voice to the fight for human dignity.
- In August 2005, as the awful hurricane battered New Orleans, Kim and her husband Scott Roberts saved lives by bringing flood victims to the attic of their house in the Ninth Ward.
- Now I know I have an attic.