Attic

[ US /ˈætɪk/ ]
[ UK /ˈætɪk/ ]
NOUN
  1. the dialect of Ancient Greek spoken and written in Attica and Athens and Ionia
ADJECTIVE
  1. of or relating to Attica or its inhabitants or to the dialect spoken in Athens in classical times
    Attic Greek
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How To Use Attic In A Sentence

  • Upstairs were the bedrooms; “mother-and-father’s room” the largest; a smaller room for one or two sons, another for one or two daughters; each of these rooms containing a double bed, a “washstand, ” a “bureau, ” a wardrobe, a little table, a rocking-chair, and often a chair or two that had been slightly damaged downstairs, but not enough to justify either the expense of repair or decisive abandonment in the attic. Chapter 1
  • And Ahaziah fell down through a lattice in his upper chamber that was in Samaria, and was sick: and he sent messengers, and said unto them, Go, enquire of Baal-zebub the god of Ekron whether I shall recover of this disease. The Dor�� Gallery of Bible Illustrations
  • Along the rural lanes beyond Arambol, old farmhouses are enclosed in latticed palm shade.
  • By this time, Dad and I had replaced the old dipole with a short Yagi array, horizontally polarized of course, and screwed to one of the crossbeams in the attic, so now we had three channels with excellent reception.
  • If the worst happens, I'll start an underground blogging movement with secret servers in people's attics.
  • It is written in Attic Greek, with much studiedly antithetical rhetoric and frequent verbal borrowings from the classical authors.
  • The room was an attic, ten feet square, lighted only by a skylight, its sole furniture a narrow iron bedstead, a chair, and a washhand-stand with one game leg. Down and Out in Paris and London
  • The pest control officer put bowls of rat poison in the attic.
  • We were crawling along the narrow steel lattice of the bridge.
  • The letter is believed to be the first which appeared signed "ATTICUS," and was written many months before the author became known as Junius, and before any necessity had arisen for the exercise of that habitual caution which he afterwards evinced in the mention of any circumstance at all likely to lead to his detection. Notes and Queries, Number 18, March 2, 1850
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