noun. A story or room directly below the roof of a building, especially a house.

noun. A low wall or story above the cornice of a classical façade.

noun. The upper portion of the tympanic cavity of the ear.

noun. Figuratively, a man's ‘top story’; the skull

noun. In architecture, a low story surmounting an entablature or the main cornice of a building. Also called attic story.

noun. A room in the uppermost part of a house, immediately beneath the roof or leads; a garret.

Pertaining to Attica, or to the city or state of Athens; Athenian; marked by such qualities as were characteristic of the Athenians.

noun. A native or an inhabitant of Attica, the territory of the ancient Athenian state, now an eparchy of the kingdom of Greece; an Athenian.

noun. The Attic dialect; Attic Greek.

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noun. A low story above the main order or orders of a facade, in the classical styles; -- a term introduced in the 17th century. Hence

noun. A room or rooms behind that part of the exterior; all the rooms immediately below the roof.

noun. An Athenian; an Athenian author.

adjective. Of or pertaining to Attica, in Greece, or to Athens, its principal city; marked by such qualities as were characteristic of the Athenians; classical; refined.

adjective. a peculiar form of molded base for a column or pilaster, described by Vitruvius, applied under the Roman Empire to the Ionic and Corinthian and “Roman Doric” orders, and imitated by the architects of the Renaissance.

adjective. inviolable faith.

adjective. special purity of language.

adjective. a poignant, delicate wit, peculiar to the Athenians.

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adjective. See Attic, n.

adjective. a style pure and elegant.

noun. 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.

noun. the dialect of Ancient Greek spoken and written in Attica and Athens and Ionia

noun. informal terms for a human head

noun. floor consisting of open space at the top of a house just below roof; often used for storage

noun. (architecture) a low wall at the top of the entablature; hides the roof

adjective. of or relating to Attica or its inhabitants or to the dialect spoken in Athens in classical times

"Dacian captives on the attic (_attic_ = a species of subordinate story added above the main cornice) of this arch were a fortunate addition, furnishing a _raison-d’être_ for the columns and broken entablatures on which they rest."

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