attic

Betekenis (Engels)

1. 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.
2. (slang) A person's head or brain.

Uitgespreek as (IPA)

/ˈætɪk/

Etimologie (Engels)

From the practice of decorating the top storey of building facades in the Attic architectural style. From French attique, from Latin atticus, from Ancient Greek Ἀττικός (Attikós).

Sinne

The attic was dark and smelt of old dust .