flo'

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.

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