ATTIC


Meaning of ATTIC in English

noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ NOUN

bedroom

She thought his attic bedroom was absolutely fabulous.

From my attic bedroom I thought I surveyed the world.

He lies there in the peeling pyramid of the attic bedroom , on his cot shaped like a gutter.

She stared at herself for some time in the full-length mirror of the attic bedroom .

room

She was already feeling faint, as much from the stale heat of the attic room as for any other reason.

A tall man waited at the stable entrance of the lodging house where Lucille Castineau had rented two attic rooms .

At a quarter to eleven she galloped back up to the attic room .

The single studio was extremely primitive, consisting of an attic room with two microphones, one turntable and a mixer.

Four out of a total of nine are en suite and two are attic rooms with marvellous views over the village and hills.

Finally she shut herself in the attic room on Ella's day off and sobbed until she ached in body and soul.

Of the twenty-one bedrooms, seventeen are spacious with private facilities, and the remaining four are attic rooms with shared bathrooms.

In his attic room he drew the curtains, turned on the bedside light and lit the gas fire.

■ VERB

go

What had gone from the attic she could only guess, for she did not remember half the things they stored there.

Before getting into his mattress he went into the front attic .

On a Saturday she went up to the attic .

One day, when a downpour crawling on the windows made even the trees look grey, he went up to the attic .

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

All these hazards, winter and summer, are the reasons an attic should be well ventilated.

He lived in the top attic right, up against the east end gable of the building.

I wish I had a cosmic panopticon and could see into every Paris cellar and every attic in the banlieue.

Indeed, he was nervous when I was out of the attic .

Pamela Wray's father found her body hanging from an attic beam.

That considered, an unvented attic can be 10 to 20 degrees warmer than outside in winter.

What had gone from the attic she could only guess, for she did not remember half the things they stored there.

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