1 (especially BrE) a space just below the roof of a house, often used for storing things and sometimes made into a room:
a loft conversion (= one that has been made into a room or rooms for living in)
compareATTIC, GARRET
2 an upper level in a church, or a farm or factory building:
the organ loft
3 a flat/apartment in a former factory, etc., that has been made suitable for living in:
They lived in a SoHo loft.
4 (AmE) a part of a room that is on a higher level than the rest:
The children slept in a loft in the upstairs bedroom.
verb [VN] (sport) to hit, kick or throw a ball very high into the air
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