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LOFT/lɒft/

A loft is the space under a roof, used for storage or converted into a room: a loft conversion; loft insulation. Attic is the close twin; loft (verb, rare at B2) is to kick high. The survey counted a converted loft as a bedroom. Mix-up: lofty is high or proud (C1, already elsewhere). Do not call a garage a loft.

Meaning

The space under the roof of a house, used for storage or converted into a room.

Examples

• “The housing survey counted a converted loft as an extra bedroom.”
• “Loft insulation featured in the energy-efficiency practical, which is the physics sense.”

Good to know

a loft conversion / hatch; loft insulation. Close: attic. Trap: lofty. Geography, housing, and physics. Under the roof, not a proud tone.

Near in meaning

attic

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