Usually means: Upper space below the roof.
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General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. Attic, attic: Merriam-Webster
  2. Attic, attic: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. Attic, attic: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. attic: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Attic, attic: Vocabulary.com
  6. Attic, attic: Wordnik
  7. attic: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Attic, attic: Wiktionary
  9. attic: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. Attic, attic: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. attic: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. attic: Dictionary.com
  13. Attic, attic: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. attic: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Attic (backup software), Attic (disambiguation), Attic, The Attic (Dollhouse), The Attic (band), The Attic (magazine), The Attic (restaurant), The Attic: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Attic: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. attic: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. attic: Rhymezone
  19. Attic: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. attic: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Attic: American-Britih Dictionary
  22. attic: FreeDictionary.org
  23. attic: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. Attic: TheFreeDictionary.com
  25. attic: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  26. attic: Merriam-Webster

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. attic: Netlingo
  2. attic: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. attic: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. attic: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. ATTIC: Acronym Finder

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)
  2. Glossary of Roots of Botanical Names (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. attic: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Attic, the attic: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Glossary of Energy Terms (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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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:  (slang) A person's head or brain.
adjective:  (historical) Of or related to Attica, ancient Athens and its hinterland, particularly:
adjective:  Synonym of Athenian, of or related to the culture of ancient Athens.
adjective:  (architecture) Of or related to ancient Athenian architecture.
adjective:  (linguistics) Of or related to Attic Greek.
adjective:  (figurative) Marked by the qualities traditionally considered characteristic of the ancient Athenians: classical, refined.
noun:  Clipping of Attic Greek, the dialect of Ancient Greek spoken in Attica, Euboea, and the northern coast of the Aegean Sea. [The dialect of Ancient Greek used in Attica, the region surrounding Athens, from 500 to 300 B.C.E., closely related to Ionic Greek and a main contributor to Koine. The language of Thucydides, Plato, Aeschylus, Xenophon, etc.]

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