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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. adv. In or into a high place; high or higher up.
  2. adv. Nautical At or toward the upper rigging.
  3. prep. On or above: birds perching aloft telephone wires.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. On high; in or into the air; high above the ground: as, the eagle soars aloft.
  2. Nautical, in or into the top; at the masthead, or on the higher yards or rigging; hence, on the upper part, as of a building.
  3. On the top or surface of; above.

Wiktionary

  1. adv. in the air; in the sky
  2. adv. above, overhead, in a high place; up
  3. adv. nautical in the top, at the masthead, or on the higher yards or rigging.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adv. On high; in the air; high above the ground.
  2. adv. (Naut.) In the top; at the mast head, or on the higher yards or rigging; overhead; hence (Fig. and Colloq.), in or to heaven.
  3. prep. obsolete Above; on top of.

WordNet 3.0

  1. adv. in the higher atmosphere above the earth
  2. adv. at or on or to the masthead or upper rigging of a ship
  3. adv. at or to great height; high up in or into the air
  4. adv. upward.

Etymologies

  1. From Old Norse á lopti ("in the sky"). (Wiktionary)
  2. Middle English, from Old Norse ā lopt : ā, in; see an- in Indo-European roots + lopt, air. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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  1. overhead
  1. above

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Words with the same terminal sound

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Words that contain this word in their definition

  1. upbear
  2. onlofte
  3. lay
  4. low
  5. lubber's hole
  6. elevate
  7. onloft
  8. loft
  9. top-hamper
  10. heft
  11. on high
  12. high-palmed
  13. high-raised
  14. scup-seat
  15. topsawyer
  16. top-hampered
  1. uphang
  2. upheave
  3. upsoar
  4. upwafted
  5. overhead
  6. ready-man
  7. sail-burton
  8. sky
  9. smiting-line
  10. soarant
  11. bucket-recall
  12. boatswain's chair
  13. baff
  14. ballooning spider
  15. afterguard
  16. aheight
  1. alow
  2. altify
  3. *bull-rope
  4. canvas-climber
  5. radiosonde
  6. metalhead
  7. ornithopter
  8. ratline
  9. uphold
  10. glider
  11. guillotine
  12. weather balloon
  13. hang time
  14. headbanger
  15. aerial
  16. deck hand
  1. aground
  2. aloft
  3. footbag
  4. sublime
  5. ratlin
  6. buoy
  7. canopy
  8. gondola
  9. meteorological balloon
  10. occluded front
  11. occlusion
  12. bosun's chair
  13. heavier-than-air craft
  14. mount
  15. parbuckle
  16. pensible
  1. sail burton
  2. soar
  3. sounding balloon
  4. top
  5. towering
  6. up
  7. uplift
  8. upsway
  9. beneath
  10. cut
  11. extol
  12. height
  13. Jacob's ladder
  14. raise
  15. rear
  16. hauling-line
  1. sail-looser
  2. tower
  3. under

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