Meaning

(countable) The interior bottom or surface of a house or building; the supporting surface of a room..

Definitions by Sense

1. (countable) The interior bottom or surface of a house or building; the supporting surface of a room.
2. (geology, biology, chiefly with a modifier) The bottom surface of a natural structure, entity, or space (e.g. cave, forest, ocean, desert, etc.); the ground (surface of the Earth).
3. (UK, dialectal, colloquial) The ground.
4. (construction, architecture) 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.
6. (architecture, countable) A storey/story of a building.
7. In a parliament, the part of the house assigned to the members, as opposed to the viewing gallery.
8. (by extension) The right to speak at a given time during a debate or other public event.

Example Sentences

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.

The leaves covering the forest floor provide many hiding-places for small animals.

Many sunken ships rest on the ocean floor.

The floor of a cave served the refugees as a home.

The pit floor showed where a ring of post holes had been.

After stepping off the bus, my wallet fell on the floor.

Wooden planks of the old bridge's floor were nearly rotten.

Word Forms

• floors
• flooring
• floored

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When Should You Use Floor?

Use floor when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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