ATTIC
\ˈatɪk], \ˈatɪk], \ˈa_t_ɪ_k]\
Definitions of ATTIC
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1920 - A practical medical dictionary.
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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By Princeton University
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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Of or pertaining to Attica, in Greece, or to Athens, its principal city; marked by such qualities as were characteristic of the Athenians; classical; refined.
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A room or rooms behind that part of the exterior; all the rooms immediately below the roof.
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An Athenian; an Athenian author.
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A low story above the main order or orders of a facade, in the classical styles; - a term introduced in the 17th century. Hence:
By Oddity Software
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Of or pertaining to Attica, in Greece, or to Athens, its principal city; marked by such qualities as were characteristic of the Athenians; classical; refined.
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A room or rooms behind that part of the exterior; all the rooms immediately below the roof.
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An Athenian; an Athenian author.
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A low story above the main order or orders of a facade, in the classical styles; - a term introduced in the 17th century. Hence:
By Noah Webster.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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Recessus epitympanicus.
By Stedman, Thomas Lathrop
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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Of or pertaining to Attica or Athens in Greece; classic; witty.
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A half-story next the roof; a garret.
By James Champlin Fernald
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Pertaining to Attica, or to its principal city, Athens.
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A native of Attica; the Attic dialect of Greek. A low storey erected over a principal order, generally decorated with pilasters and a cornice, but having neither capital nor base; usually an uppermost room in a house where the ceiling is square with the sides, to distinguish it from a garret, but the latter is also frequently termed an attic. Attic wit, or Attic salt, poignant, delicate wit, such as the Athenians were famous for. Attic style, a pure, classical, and elegant style. Attic faith, inviolable faith. Attic dialect, the dialect of Greek spoken by the Athenians. Attic base, a peculiar base, consisting of an upper torus, a scotia, and lower torus, with fillets between them, used by ancient architects in the lonic order or column, and sometimes in the Doric. Attic order, an order of small square pillars at the uppermost extremity of a building. Attic storey, the upper storey of a house.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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Pert. to Attica, a town in Greece; elegant; classical.
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In arch., a plain or decorated parapet-wall on the upper part of the facade of a building; an Athenian.
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The fiat or floor on the upper part of a house; a garret.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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Syn. : epitympanum. A pyramidal recess above the tympanum and the inner extremity of the external auditory meatus. It communicates with the mastoid antrum by the petromastoid canal. It is partially coccupied by the malleus and the incus. [Gr.]
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
