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# 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/attic/#m1)

2) (adjective use) In or of the attic: an attic bedroom. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/attic/#m2)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/attic/#x1)
- We found Grandma's old letters in a trunk in the attic. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/attic/#x2)
- My big brother's bedroom is in the attic. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/attic/#x3)
- Only step on the boards in the attic, never between them. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/attic/#x4)
- A bat had got into the attic. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/attic/#x5)
- The attic is hot in summer and cold in winter. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/attic/#x6)
- There was once a hard-working student who lived in an attic, and he had nothing in the world of his own. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/attic/#x7)

### 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.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/224-raccoons-opossums-and-skunks/8/)
- [Le grenier is the attic; the word comes from grain, which was once stored up there.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/21-my-house-and-my-home/12/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «attic» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/attic/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.