attic

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. A story or room directly below the roof of a building, especially a house.
2. n. A low wall or story above the cornice of a classical façade.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. Pertaining to Attica, or to the city or state of Athens; Athenian; marked by such qualities as were characteristic of the Athenians.
2. n. A native or an inhabitant of Attica, the territory of the ancient Athenian state, now an eparchy of the kingdom of Greece; an Athenian.
3. n. The Attic dialect; Attic Greek.
4. n. In architecture, a low story surmounting an entablature or the main cornice of a building. Also called attic story.
5. n. A room in the uppermost part of a house, immediately beneath the roof or leads; a garret.
6. n. The upper portion of the tympanic cavity of the ear.
7. n. Figuratively, a man's ‘top story’; the skull

Wiktionary

1. n. The space, often unfinished and with sloped walls, directly below the roof in the uppermost part of a house or other building, generally used for storage or habitation.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. adj. 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.
2. n. A low story above the main order or orders of a facade, in the classical styles; -- a term introduced in the 17th century. Hence
3. n. A room or rooms behind that part of the exterior; all the rooms immediately below the roof.
4. n. An Athenian; an Athenian author.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. the dialect of Ancient Greek spoken and written in Attica and Athens and Ionia
2. n. informal terms for a human head
3. n. floor consisting of open space at the top of a house just below roof; often used for storage
4. n. (architecture) a low wall at the top of the entablature; hides the roof
5. adj. of or relating to Attica or its inhabitants or to the dialect spoken in Athens in classical times