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floor

/flɔː//floɹ/

floor noun: the interior bottom or surface of a house or building; the supporting surface of a room.

floor: the interior bottom or surface of a house or building; the supporting surface of a room
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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.
    • A great bargain also had been the excellent Axminster carpet which covered the floor; as, again, the arm-chair in which Bunting now sat forward, staring into the dull, small fire.1913, Mrs. [Marie] Belloc Lowndes, chapter I, in The Lodger, London: Methuen, →OCLC; republished in Novels of Mystery: The Lodger; The Story of Ivy; What Really Happened, New York, N.Y.: Longmans...
  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.
    • Many sunken ships rest on the ocean floor.
  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.
    • When Timothy and Julia hurried up the staircase to the bedroom floor, where a considerable commotion was taking place, Tim took Barry Leach with him. He had him gripped firmly by the arm, since he felt it was not safe to let him loose, and he had no immediate idea what to do with him.1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 19, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC
  7. In a parliament, the part of the house assigned to the members, as opposed to the viewing gallery.
  8. (broadly) The right to speak at a given time during a debate or other public event.
    • Will the senator from Arizona yield the floor?
    • The mayor often gives a lobbyist the floor.
    Synonyms:
    possession
  9. That part of the bottom of a vessel on each side of the keelson which is most nearly horizontal.
  10. A horizontal, flat ore body; the rock underlying a stratified or nearly horizontal deposit.
  11. The bottom of a pit, pothole or mine.
  12. The largest integer less than or equal to a given number.
    • The floor of 4.5 is 4.
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  1. An event performed on a floor-like carpeted surface; floor exercise
  2. A floor-like carpeted surface for performing gymnastic movements.
  3. A lower limit or minimum on a price or rate, a price floor. Opposite of a cap or ceiling.
  4. A dance floor.
    • She's a maniac, maniac on the floor / And she's dancing like she never danced before1983, "Maniac", Michael Sembello and Dennis Matkosky
    • Open the door, get on the floor / Everybody walk the dinosaur1987, "Walk the Dinosaur", Was (Not Was)
  5. The trading floor of a stock exchange, pit; the area in which business is conducted at a convention or exhibition.
  6. The area of a casino where gambling occurs.
    • At each table stood a young, slim, poker-faced croupier serving the punters who anxiously watched the turning of the cards. The next two floors were similar though not quite as spectacular and the stakes were lower.2004, Tim Hatton, Tock Tock Birds: A Spider in the Web of International Terrorism, page 284
  7. The area of an establishment where food and drink are served to customers.
    • The conference started as an impromptu session in the coffee shop this morning when waitresses walked off the floor rather than serve four Negro men and women delegates.1947 March 18, U.S. Government Printing Office, Proceedings and Debates of the Congress, Eightieth Congress, First Session, page 2206

Verb

floor (third-person singular simple present floors, present participle flooring, simple past and past participle floored)

  1. (transitive) To cover or furnish with a floor.
    • floor a house with pine boards
    • The huge square box, parquet-floored and high-ceilinged, had been arranged to display a suite of bedroom furniture designed and made in the halcyon days of the last quarter of the nineteenth century,[…].1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 1, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC
  2. To strike down or lay level with the floor; to knock down.
    • Sam floored him perpetually, and beat his face to a jelly, without getting a scratch.1821, Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, volume 8, page 67
  3. (dated, informal) To hang (a picture on exhibition) near the base of a wall, where it cannot easily be seen.
    Antonyms:
    sky
  4. (slang, transitive, driving) To push (a pedal) down to the floor, especially to accelerate.
    • our driver floored the pedal
    • I don't remember much about the flight from Chicago to Denver. We landed a little after eleven, and I ran through the airport, ran to my car. Floored it most of the way home.2008, Wally Lamb, The Hour I First Believed, Ch.7, at p.161
  5. (informal, transitive) To silence by a conclusive answer or retort.
    • floor an opponent
    • Floored or crushed by him.c. 1827-1833, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Notes on Hacket
  6. (informal, transitive, usually passive voice) To amaze or greatly surprise.
    • We were floored by his confession.
    • Some of the attendees were “absolutely floored,” said an official familiar with the proceedings. That someone in the U.S. government could “make an argument that is so nakedly against transparency, in light of the unfolding catastrophe, was…shocking and disturbing.”2021 June 3, Katherine Eban, “The Lab-Leak Theory: Inside the Fight to Uncover COVID-19’s Origins”, in Vanity Fair
  7. (colloquial, transitive) To finish or make an end of.
    • floor a college examination
    • I've floored my little-go work1859–1861, [Thomas Hughes], Tom Brown at Oxford: […], (please specify |part=1 or 2), Boston, Mass.: Ticknor and Fields, published 1861, →OCLC
  8. To set a lower bound.
    • floored division

floor meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu

floor in Hindi

bottom part of a room
फ़र्श farś, भूतल bhūtal, ज़मीन zamīn, तल tal
surface of the Earth, as opposed to the sky or water or underground
तल tal
horizontal structure dividing a building
तल tal

floor in Tamil

தரை, தளம், மாடி

floor in Marathi

मजला, फरशी

floor in Urdu

bottom part of a room
فَرْش farś, بُھوتَل bhūtal, زَمِین zamīn
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floor in Bengali
মেঝে mejhe, তল tol
floor in Malayalam
തറ taṟa
floor in Kannada
ನೆಲ nela
floor in Punjabi
ਫਰਸ਼ pharaś
floor in Gujarati
જમીન jamīn
floor in Odia
ଚଟାଣ
floor in Sanskrit
भूतल bhūtala
floor in Nepali
भुइँ bhuĩ
floor in Pashto
مځکه mźəka, ځمکه źməka
floor in Tagalog
sahig, misla
floor in Arabic
أَرْضِيَّة ʔarḍiyya, أَرْض ʔarḍ, طَابِق ṭābiq
floor in Malay
lantai
floor in Indonesian
lantai
floor in Thai
พื้น pʉ́ʉn
floor in Vietnamese
sàn, nền
floor in Myanmar
ကြမ်း kram:

Examples of floor in a sentence

  • The floor of a cave served the refugees as a home.
  • The pit floor showed where a ring of post holes had been.
  • The floor of the cave was covered with white sand that had been washed in by the river.1989 May, Uwe George, “Venezuela's Islands in Time”, in National Geographic, volume 175, number 5, page 561:

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Forms of floor

Noun
pluralfloors
Verb
third-person singular presentfloors
present participleflooring
past participlefloored
pastfloored

Past tense of floor: floored

Plural of floor: floors

Origin of floor

Inherited from Middle English floor, floour, flor, flore, flour, flur, vlor, from Old English flōr (“floor, pavement; deck; gangplank”), from Proto-West Germanic *flōr, from Proto-Germanic *flōraz (“ground; floor”), from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₂ros (“floor”), from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₂- (“flat”). Cognates Cognate with Scots flair, fluir (“floor”), Saterland Frisian Floor (“floor”), Dutch vloer (“floor”), German Flur (“corridor, hall, hallway, stairwell”), Limburgish Vlǫǫr (“floor”), Low German Floor (“hallway or entrance to a house”), Luxembourgish Flouer (“countryside, farmland”); also Breton and Cornish leur (“floor, ground, surface”), Irish lár (“floor, ground”), Scottish Gaelic làr (“earth, floor, ground”), Manx laare (“bottom, deck, floor; level, storey”), Welsh llawr (“floor, ground”), Latin plānus (“even, flat, level”), Greek απαλάμη (apalámi), παλάμη (palámi, “hand, palm”), Albanian pëllëmbë (“palm”), Latgalian pluons (“thin”), Latvian plāns (“thin”), Lithuanian plonas (“fine, slender, thin”), Belarusian, Macedonian, Russian, and Ukrainian по́ле (póle, “field”), Bulgarian поле́ (polé, “field”), Czech, Polish, and Slovak pole (“field”), Serbo-Croatian по̏ље, pȍlje...

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Questions about floor

What does floor mean?
Floor means the interior bottom or surface of a house or building; the supporting surface of a room.
What is floor in Hindi?
Floor in Hindi is फ़र्श (farś), भूतल (bhūtal), ज़मीन (zamīn). See Floor meaning in Hindi.
How do you use floor in a sentence?
The floor of a cave served the refugees as a home.
What part of speech is floor?
Floor can be a noun or a verb.
How do you pronounce floor?
Floor is pronounced /flɔː/ (UK).
What is the plural of floor?
The plural of floor is floors.

Words near floor in the dictionary

  1. flooks
  2. flooky
  3. floom
  4. flooms
  5. floop
  6. floor
  7. floor box
  8. floor boxes
  9. floor broker
  10. floor brokers
  11. floor effect

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: floor (page history and authors); floor (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); floor (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); തറ (Malayalam) (page history and authors); ನೆಲ (Kannada) (page history and authors); જમીન (Gujarati) (page history and authors); floor (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); भुइँ (Nepali) (page history and authors); مځکه (Pashto) (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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