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fl.

fl. is the abbreviation of floor.

fl. is the abbreviation of florin.

fl. is the abbreviation of floruit.

Meaning of floor

Noun

floor (plural floors)

  1. (countable) The interior bottom or surface of a house or building; the supporting surface of a room.
    • The room has a wooden floor.
  2. The bottom surface of a natural structure, entity, or space (e.g. cave, forest, ocean, desert, etc.); the ground (surface of the Earth).
    • The leaves covering the forest floor provide many hiding-places for small animals.
  3. (UK, colloquial, dialectal) The ground.
    • After stepping off the bus, my wallet fell on the floor.
  4. A structure formed of beams, girders, etc, with proper covering, which divides a building horizontally into storeys/stories.
  5. The supporting surface or platform of a structure such as a bridge.
    • Wooden planks of the old bridge's floor were nearly rotten.
  6. (countable) A storey/story of a building.
    • For years we lived on the third floor.

See all 27 meanings of floor

Meaning of florin

Noun

florin (plural florins)

  1. Any of several gold coins once produced in Florence, Italy; model for the other currencies.
  2. A guilder (pre-Euro currency unit of the Netherlands).
    • [I]n 1646, during the phenomenon known as "Tulipomania", a tulip like the red and white 'Admirael van der Eijck', or the purple-splashed 'Generalen van Gouda' would sell for more than 1,000 Dutch florins, at a time when the average annual income of a skilled worker was about 300 florins.2014 September 26, Charles Quest-Ritson, “The Dutch garden where tulip bulbs live forever: Hortus Bulborum, a volunteer-run Dutch garden, is dedicated to conserving historic varieties before they...
  3. The currency of Aruba, divided into 100 cents, symbol ƒ.
  4. A pre-decimal British coin, worth two shillings or ten new pence.
  5. A pre-decimal Australian, and New Zealand, coin, worth 24 pence or a tenth of a pound.

See all 6 meanings of florin

Noun capitalized: Fl.

Fl. (plural Fl.)

  1. (abbreviation) Abbreviation of flute.

Proper noun capitalized: Fl.

Fl.

  1. (abbreviation) Abbreviation of Florida; Alternative form of FL.

Forms of fl.

pluralFl.

Questions about fl.

What is fl. the abbreviation of?
Fl. is the abbreviation of floor.
What part of speech is fl.?
Fl. can be a noun or a proper noun.
What is the plural of fl.?
The plural of fl. is Fl..

Words near fl. in the dictionary

  1. fked
  2. fking
  3. fkn
  4. fks
  5. fl
  6. fl.
  7. fl. oz.
  8. FLA
  9. Fla.
  10. flab
  11. flabagast

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Adapted from Wiktionary: fl. (page history and authors); Fl. (page history and authors); floor (page history and authors); florin (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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