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floorstone

floorstone noun: a stone making up part of a floor or flooring.

Noun

floorstone (countable and uncountable, plural floorstones)

  1. (countable) A stone making up part of a floor or flooring.
  2. (uncountable) Stone pavement, serving as a floor.
    • The other families buried in this church, by the floor-stone inscriptions, are, Seagrave, Hough, Cragg, Hyde, and Hutchinson.1780, Gentleman's Magazine: and Historical Chronicle

Forms of floorstone

pluralfloorstones
alternative formfloor-stone
alternative formfloor stone

Origin of floorstone

From Middle English *flor-ston, from Old English flōrstān, equivalent to floor + stone.

Questions about floorstone

What does floorstone mean?
Floorstone means a stone making up part of a floor or flooring.
What part of speech is floorstone?
Floorstone is a noun.
What is the plural of floorstone?
The plural of floorstone is floorstones.

Words near floorstone in the dictionary

  1. floorsful
  2. floorshow
  3. floorshows
  4. floorspace
  5. floorspaces
  6. floorstone
  7. floorstones
  8. floortile
  9. floortiles
  10. floortime
  11. floorwalker

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