- (especially British English)
a space just below the roof of a house, often used for storing things and sometimes made into a room 阁楼，顶楼（常用以贮物，间或作房间） a loft conversion (= one that has been made into a room or rooms for living in) 用阁楼改装的居室
an upper level in a church, or a farm or factory building （教堂的）楼厢；（农场的）厩楼；（工厂的）上层楼面 the organ loft 教堂内的管风琴台
a flat in a former factory, etc., that has been made suitable for living in （由工厂等改建的）套房，公寓 - (North American English)
a part of a room that is on a higher level than the rest （房间的）跃层
Word Originlate Old English, from Old Norse lopt ‘air, sky, upper room’, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch lucht and German Luft.