Definitions for LOFT

LOFT loft

Spelling: [lawft, loft]
IPA: /lɔft, lɒft/

Loft is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 26 anagrams from letters in LOFT (flot).

Definitions for LOFT

noun

  1. a room, storage area, or the like within a sloping roof; attic; garret.
  2. a gallery or upper level in a church, hall, etc., designed for a special purpose:
  3. a hayloft.
  4. an upper story of a business building, warehouse, or factory, typically consisting of open, unpartitioned floor area.
  5. such an upper story converted or adapted to any of various uses, as quarters for living, studios for artists or dancers, exhibition galleries, or theater space.
  6. Also called loft bed. a balcony or platform built over a living area and used especially for sleeping.
  7. Chiefly Midland and Southern U.S. an attic.
  8. Golf. the slope of the face of the head of a club backward from the vertical, tending to drive the ball upward. the act of lofting. a lofting stroke.
  9. the resiliency of fabric or yarn, especially wool.
  10. the thickness of a fabric or of insulation used in a garment, as a down-filled jacket.

verb (used with object)

  1. to hit or throw aloft:
  2. Golf. to slant the face of (a club). to hit (a golf ball) into the air or over an obstacle. to clear (an obstacle) in this manner.
  3. to store in a loft.
  4. Shipbuilding. to form or describe (the lines of a hull) at full size, as in a mold loft; lay off.
  5. Archaic. to provide (a house, barn, etc.) with a loft.

verb (used without object)

  1. to hit or throw something aloft, especially a ball.
  2. to go high into the air when hit, as a ball.

Origin of LOFT

before 1000; Middle English lofte (noun), late Old English loft Old Norse lopt upper chamber or region, the air, sky. See lift

Examples for LOFT

It consisted of two rooms and a loft in the pitch of the roof.

The loft, over the part where the cider-mill was, was the corn-house.

It was a lovely little two bedroom house in the U Street neighborhood--not big bedrooms, of course, but if we got a loft bed . . .

This was the general opinion of the class of 19—, that old "Loosh had pigeons in his loft."

And yet this time his lift and loft will be weighted down by hard experience.

South Korean activists are already planning to loft them over the Demilitarized Zone in balloons.

You may have as many tulips as you like: I have three hundred of them in my loft.

The Arsenal has been converted to “Manhattan style, loft apartments,” the vast majority still unsold.

As to the building, I am soon disappointed, because the work is all done in one loft.

A few weeks ago I was invited to a Soho loft for a board game day.

Word Value for LOFT
Scrable

7

Words with friends

8

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