Ground-floor

Quick meaning: Ground-floor is an adjective meaning Situated on the ground floor.

Meaning

Situated on the ground floor.

Example Sentences

They were shewn into a back sitting-room on the ground-floor, where a certain air of elegant untidiness denoted the lady-like superiority of Mrs. Smallwood.

The fact, however, of the porte-cochère taking up so much of the ground-floor is often most ingeniously compensated by making the space to the right or left of the doorway, as the case may be, into an excellent shop.

One day that he had been writing a letter in Mr. Smalls' rooms, which were on the ground-floor, Verdant congratulated himself that his own rooms were on the third floor, and were thus removed from the possibility of his friends, when he had sported his oak, being able to get through his window to "chaff" him; but he soon discovered that rooms upstairs had also objectionable points in their private character, and were not altogether such eligible apartments as he had at first anticipated.

Word Forms

• ground-floors

Synonyms for ground-floor

Depending on context, synonyms include downstairs, downstair.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include downstairs, downstair, low-floor, paveside, split-level, walk-up.

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