Attic

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim 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.

   “We went up to the attic to look for the boxes containing our childhood keepsakes.”

2. isim A storey or a parapet above the cornice of a classical façade, often decorated.
3. isim A person's head or brain.

   “[…] was a diminutive, forked-radish sort of a young man, very fashionably attired, or, as he would say, kiddily togg'd; and, though it was scarcely noon, he was rather queer in the attic; that is to say, not exactly sober.”

4. sıfat Synonym of Athenian, of or related to the culture of ancient Athens.

   “[…] Aeschylus here, as elsewhere, made himself the legislator of all Attic tragedy.”

5. sıfat Of or related to ancient Athenian architecture.
6. sıfat Of or related to Attic Greek.
7. sıfat Marked by the qualities traditionally considered characteristic of the ancient Athenians: classical, refined.

   “, The distinction between the Attic and the Asiatic schools takes us back to antiquity. The former were regarded as concise and healthy, the latter as empty and inflated: […]”

8. özel isim Clipping of Attic Greek, the dialect of Ancient Greek spoken in Attica, Euboea, and the northern coast of the Aegean Sea.