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ground floor

ground floor noun: the floor of a building closest to ground level.

Noun

ground floor (plural ground floors)

  1. (Australia, New Zealand, UK) The floor of a building closest to ground level.
    • The rite of the certification of death and placement in the coffin took place on Monday evening at 8:00 PM in the chapel on the ground floor of the late Pope's residence in the Casa Santa Marta.2025 April 21, Devin Watkins, “Pope Francis has died on Easter Monday aged 88”, in Vatican News
    Synonyms:
    first floor
  2. (figuratively, informal) The initial stage of a project.
    • We are the exclusive marketing agents for three excellent condominium developments which can get you in on the ground floor of a truly fine winter/summer resort experience.1981, Texas Monthly, volume 9, number 7, page 171

ground floor meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Kannada and Tagalog

ground floor in Hindi

floor of a building closest to ground level
भूतल bhūtal

ground floor in Tamil

திரைத்தளம், தரைத்தளம், கீழ் தளம்

ground floor in Kannada

ನೆಲ ಮಹಡಿ

ground floor in Tagalog

floor of a building closest to ground level
unang palapag
More languagesFewer languages
ground floor in Arabic
طَابِق أَرْضِيّ ṭābiq ʔarḍiyy, دَوْر أَرْضِيّ dawr ʔarḍiyy
ground floor in Malay
tingkat bawah
ground floor in Persian
هَمکَف hamkaf

Synonyms of ground floor

Forms of ground floor

pluralground floors
alternative uncommonground-floor
alternative uncommongroundfloor

Questions about ground floor

What does ground floor mean?
Ground floor means the floor of a building closest to ground level.
What is ground floor in Hindi?
Ground floor in Hindi is भूतल (bhūtal). See Ground floor meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is ground floor?
Ground floor is a noun.
What is the plural of ground floor?
The plural of ground floor is ground floors.

Words near ground floor in the dictionary

  1. ground failure
  2. ground failures
  3. ground finch
  4. ground finches
  5. ground fish
  6. ground floor
  7. ground floors
  8. ground fog
  9. ground fogs
  10. ground food
  11. ground forces

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Adapted from Wiktionary: ground floor (page history and authors); ground floor (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ground floor (Kannada Wiktionary) (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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