LOFT, noun 1. Properly, an elevation; hence, in a building, the elevation of one story or floor above another; hence, a floor above another; as the second loft; third loft; fourth loft Spenser seems to have used the word for the highest floor or top, and this may have been its original signification. 2. A high room or place.
Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary ↗ · public-domain · returned verbatim, no AI