Aloft

//əˈlɔft// adv

adv ·Uncommon ·College level

Definitions

Adverb
  1. 1
    At, to, or in the air or sky.

    "high winds aloft"

  2. 2
    Above, overhead, in a high place; up.

    "Someone's turned the chest out alow and aloft."

  3. 3
    In the top, at the masthead, or on the higher yards or rigging.

    "I think you said something concerning the manner in which yonder ship has anchored, and of the condition they keep things alow and aloft?"

Adverb
  1. 1
    in the higher atmosphere above the earth wordnet
  2. 2
    at or to great height; high up in or into the air wordnet
  3. 3
    upward wordnet
  4. 4
    at or on or to the masthead or upper rigging of a ship wordnet

Synonyms

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aboardaboveabovestairsafloatairwardall aboard

Antonyms

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below

Example

More examples

"I saw a flock of birds flying aloft."

Etymology

From Old Norse á lopti (“in the sky”); equivalent to a- + loft.

Related phrases

come aloftgone aloftstitch alofttake aloft

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