loft.

1. A room or storage space directly beneath the roof of a building.

2. A large, open living or working space, often converted from an industrial building.

3. Throw or strike something so that it rises high.

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Words that belong together

• storage loft
• hay loft

On the page

Dust drifted from the storage loft when the door opened.

Usage notes

Primary category: architecture / spatial description. Forms: Singular loft; plural lofts. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Writing functions: setting, description. Commonness: common. Third-person singular: lofts.