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floorboards

floorboards is the plural of floorboard.

floorboards is the third-person singular simple present indicative of floorboard.

Meaning of floorboard

Noun

floorboard (plural floorboards)

  1. Any of the long boards laid over joists to make a floor.
    • There was a rat that lived under our duplex. […] It went in and out through a broken floorboard in the porch, and into our kitchens, but we didn’t believe in killing it.1976, Vance Bourjaily, “All Quiet on the Middlewestern Front”, in Now Playing at Canterbury, New York, N.Y.: The Dial Press, →ISBN, page 364
  2. The floor of a vehicle.
    • The officers said they found two rifles in the car, one on the front floorboard of the vehicle and another on the rear floorboard.1999, Ernesto B. Vigil, The Crusade for Justice: Chicano Militancy and the Government's War on Dissent, page 212

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Questions about floorboards

What is floorboards the plural of?
Floorboards is the plural of floorboard.

Words near floorboards in the dictionary

  1. floorage
  2. floorball
  3. floorboard
  4. floorboarded
  5. floorboarding
  6. floorboards
  7. floorbox
  8. floorboxes
  9. floorcare
  10. floorcest
  11. floorcloth

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Adapted from Wiktionary: floorboards (page history and authors); floorboard (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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