attic

Meaning

Noun

• 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.
• A person's head or brain.

Origin

• From the practice of decorating the top storey of building façades in the Attic architectural style. From French attique, from Latin atticus, from Ancient Greek Ἀττικός.