1
: an upper room or floor : attic
2
a
: a gallery in a church or hall
b
: one of the upper floors of a warehouse or business building especially when not partitioned
living in a converted loft
c
: hayloft
3
a
: the backward slant of the face of a golf-club head
b
: the act of lofting
4
: the thickness of a fabric or insulating material (such as goose down)
lofted; lofting; lofts
1
: to place, house, or store in a loft
2
: to propel through the air or into space
lofted a long hit to center
instruments lofted by a powerful rocket
3
: to lay out a full-sized working drawing of the lines and contours of (such as a ship's hull)
Examples of loft in a Sentence
Noun
The kids' bedroom has a loft.
He rents a converted loft.
Verb
He lofted a home run into the stands.
The explosion lofted dust high into the air.
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Zach Helfand, The New Yorker, 10 Mar. 2025
The films of Ephron, Meyers, Woody Allen and their ilk are typically populated solely by the affluent, New Yorkers with fabulous uptown apartments, downtown lofts or spacious homes in the suburbs.
—Jason Bailey, New York Times, 14 Feb. 2025
Mike Wall, Space.com, 15 Mar. 2025
Dust particles lofted high into the air would absorb and scatter sunlight, preventing it from reaching Earth’s surface.
—Ashley Strickland, CNN, 5 Feb. 2025
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Noun
For three hundred dollars a month, Gun shared a three-story loft on Bowery after one of its floors had been vacated by Chris Stein and Debbie Harry.
—Zach Helfand, The New Yorker, 10 Mar. 2025
The films of Ephron, Meyers, Woody Allen and their ilk are typically populated solely by the affluent, New Yorkers with fabulous uptown apartments, downtown lofts or spacious homes in the suburbs.
—Jason Bailey, New York Times, 14 Feb. 2025
Verb
SpaceX has lofted nearly 8,100 Starlink spacecraft to date, 7,061 of which are operational today, according to astrophysicist and satellite tracker Jonathan McDowell.
—Mike Wall, Space.com, 15 Mar. 2025
Dust particles lofted high into the air would absorb and scatter sunlight, preventing it from reaching Earth’s surface.
—Ashley Strickland, CNN, 5 Feb. 2025
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“Loft.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/loft. Accessed 23 Mar. 2025.
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loft
2 of 2 verb1
: to place, house, or store in a loft
2
: to strike or throw a ball so that it rises high in the air
lofted a high fly to center field
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