attic

«attic» in Mova's school dictionary: A room or space just under the roof of a house, often… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (an attic, attics)

meaning for a pupil

1) A room or space just under the roof of a house, often used for storing things. tree →

2) (adjective use) In or of the attic: an attic bedroom. tree →

sense in the lessons

In stories attics are full of old trunks, secrets and spiders; in everyday life people store boxes, decorations and suitcases there. In safety, attics can have no proper floor and loose wires, so children should not go up alone. Phrases: up in the attic, attic room, attic conversion, clear out the attic.

examples

• The Christmas decorations are up in the attic. tree →
• We found Grandma's old letters in a trunk in the attic. tree →
• My big brother's bedroom is in the attic. tree →
• Only step on the boards in the attic, never between them. tree →
• A bat had got into the attic. tree →
• The attic is hot in summer and cold in winter. tree →
• There was once a hard-working student who lived in an attic, and he had nothing in the world of his own. tree →

note

Countable. Similar words: loft (UK, often a space you climb into) and garret (a small, poor attic room in old stories). Not to be confused with "Attic", meaning from ancient Athens.

In the corpora

• Raccoons are common in North American cities like Toronto, where they raid bins and nest in attics and chimneys.
• Le grenier is the attic; the word comes from grain, which was once stored up there.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «attic» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.