adv. 1. In or into a high place; high or higher up: The balloon was drifting aloft on the wind. 2. Up in or into the air: The plane was quickly aloft. 3. Nautical At or toward the upper rigging. prep. On or above: birds perching aloft telephone wires. [Middle English, from Old Norse ā lopt : ā, in; see an- in the Appendix of Indo-European roots + lopt, air.] |
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