Results for attic

Definitions of attic:

part of speech: adjective

Pertaining to Attica or to Athens: chaste, elegant.

part of speech: noun

The room or space immediately beneath the roof of a house.

part of speech: noun

In arch., a plain or decorated parapet- wall on the upper part of the facade of a building; an Athenian.

part of speech: noun

The fiat or floor on the upper part of a house; a garret.

part of speech: adjective

Pert. to Attica, a town in Greece; elegant; classical.

Usage examples for attic:

• 10. Attic refined, delicate, poignant. "Minor Poems by Milton", John Milton

• The Boeotians would so be least likely to be compelled to come into the Attic treaty; and the Lacedaemonians would prefer gaining the friendship and alliance of Argos even at the price of the hostility of Athens and the rupture of the treaty. "The History of the Peloponnesian War", Thucydides

• Be assured that this is truly the Attic territory. "The Clouds", Aristophanes

• As he climbed the stair to his attic room he was still thinking. "Further Foolishness", Stephen Leacock