Definition of Attic

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Definition of Attic

Attic

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.

A low story above the main order or orders of a facade, in the classical styles; -- a term introduced in the 17th century. Hence:

A room or rooms behind that part of the exterior; all the rooms immediately below the roof.

An Athenian; an Athenian author.

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Attic Quotations

Being "contented" ought to mean in English, as it does in French, being pleased. Being content with an attic ought not to mean being unable to move from it and resigned to living in it; it ought to mean appreciating all there is in such a position.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

The press is like the peculiar uncle you keep in the attic - just one of those unfortunate things.
G. Gordon Liddy

The past is an old armchair in the attic, the present an ominous ticking sound, and the future is anybody's guess.
James Thurber

An uncle of mine emigrated to Canada and couldn't take his guitar with him. When I found it in the attic, I'd found a friend for life.
Sting

A man should keep his little brain attic stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to use, and the rest he can put away in the lumber-room of his library, where he can get it if he wants it.
Arthur Conan Doyle

I consider that a man's brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose.
Arthur Conan Doyle

I often think that could we creep behind the actor's eyes, we would find an attic of forgotten toys and a copy of the Domesday Book.
Laurence Olivier

I'm convinced there's a small room in the attic of the Foreign Office where future diplomats are taught to stammer.
Peter Ustinov

I had a toy theater and a magic lantern, and when I was eight I built a stage for theatricals in the attic.
James Broughton

A deliberate choice on my part was for the player to continue to find new possibilities in the early Attic rooms far into the game. I think this builds atmosphere, though it means there's no neat division of the prologue from the middle game.
Graham Nelson

Attic Translations

Attic in Afrikaans is Atties
attic in Danish is loftsrum
attic in Dutch is zolderkamer
Attic in Dutch is Attisch
attic in Dutch is dakkamertje
attic in German is Dachkammer, Dachkammer, Dachstube
attic in Italian is abbaino, deposito, soffitta
attic in Latin is cenaculum
attic in Norwegian is loft
attic in Spanish is zaquizami, desvan

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