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Skylight vs Attic - What's the difference?

skylight | attic |

As nouns the difference between skylight and attic

is that skylight is a window, dome, or opening in the roof or ceiling, to admit natural light while attic is 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.

As an adjective Attic is

relating to Athenian culture or architecture.

As a proper noun Attic is

an ancient Greek dialect spoken in Attica, Euboea, and the northern coastal regions of the Aegean Sea.

skylight

English

(wikipedia skylight)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A window, dome, or opening in the roof or ceiling, to admit natural light.
  • —solar radiation reaching the earth's surface after having been scattered from the direct solar beam by molecules or suspensoids in the atmosphere

    • attic

    English

    Noun

    (en 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.
    • We went up to the attic to look for the boxes containing our childhood keepsakes.

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