Word.ws English Dictionary

low-floor

low-floor adjective: of buses, trams or trains, built with a floor closer to ground level to ease access for passengers.

Adjective

low-floor

  1. Of buses, trams or trains, built with a floor closer to ground level to ease access for passengers.
    • To date, only Stadler has brought low-floor trains to Britain, while the major rolling stock makers - Bombardier, Alstom, Siemens and Hitachi - seem wedded to trains with high floors that force passengers in wheelchairs to ask for help to board and alight trains.2020 November 4, Philip Haigh, “Easy to maintain, easy to use, but how easy to implement?”, in Rail, page 33

Questions about low-floor

What does low-floor mean?
Low-floor means of buses, trams or trains, built with a floor closer to ground level to ease access for passengers.
What part of speech is low-floor?
Low-floor is an adjective.

Words near low-floor in the dictionary

  1. low-emission
  2. low-end
  3. low-enriched uranium
  4. low-fat
  5. low-fi
  6. low-floor
  7. low-functioning
  8. low-functioning autism
  9. low-grade
  10. low-grade fever
  11. low-grade fevers

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: low-floor (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “low-floor.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/low-floor. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.