Meaning

19 senses

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

    The room has a wooden floor.

    Boden, Bodenbelag, Fußboden

    полpol

    підло́гаpidlóha

    the bottom surface of any lake or other body of water

  2. The bottom surface of a natural structure, entity, or space (e.g. cave, forest, ocean, desert, etc.); the ground (surface of the Earth).

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

    Many sunken ships rest on the ocean floor.

    Land, Erdboden, Boden

    земля́zemljá, су́шаsúša, пове́рхностьpovérxnostʹ

    дноdno

  3. (UK, colloquial, dialectal)The ground.

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

    the ground on which people and animals move about

  4. 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.

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

    Plattform, Decke

    насти́лnastíl

    the lower inside surface of any hollow structure

  6. (countable)A storey/story of a building.

    For years we lived on the third floor.

  7. In a parliament, the part of the house assigned to the members, as opposed to the viewing gallery.

    Plenarsaal, Haus

  8. (broadly)The right to speak at a given time during a debate or other public event.

    Will the senator from Arizona yield the floor?

    The mayor often gives a lobbyist the floor.

    Wort, Redezeit, Rederecht

    сло́воslóvo

  9. That part of the bottom of a vessel on each side of the keelson which is most nearly horizontal.

    Schiffsboden

  10. A horizontal, flat ore body; the rock underlying a stratified or nearly horizontal deposit.

    Decke, Stockwerk, Deckenkonstruktion

    эта́жetáž

    по́верхpóverx

  11. The bottom of a pit, pothole or mine.

    Sohle

  12. The largest integer less than or equal to a given number.

    The floor of 4.5 is 4.

    Abrundungswert, Abrundungsbetrag

    полpol

Examples

2111 sentences

  1. I live on the bottom floor.

    Я живу на самому нижньому поверсі. — deniko

    ruЯ живу на самом нижнем этаже. — fjay69

    deIch wohne im Erdgeschoss. — MUIRIEL

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  2. He was sitting on the floor.

    Він сидів на підлозі. — anastasishko

    ruОн сидел на полу. — Hellerick

    deEr saß auf dem Fußboden. — Yorwba

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  3. There's no blood on the floor.

    На підлозі немає крові. — deniko

    ruНа полу нет крови. — odexed

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  4. Tom is lying on the floor.

    Том лежить на підлозі. — deniko

    ruТом лежит на полу. — marafon

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  5. Tom saw blood on the floor.

    Том побачив на підлозі кров. — deniko

    ruТом увидел на полу кровь. — marafon

    deTom sah Blut auf dem Boden. — Djabby

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Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 3
bottom part of a room:
lower inside surface of a hollow space:
horizontal structure dividing a building:
Русский
By meaning 6
bottom part of a room:
surface of the Earth, as opposed to the sky or water or underground:
lower inside surface of a hollow space:
supporting surface of a structure:
right to speak:
horizontal structure dividing a building:
Deutsch
By meaning 12
bottom part of a room:
surface of the Earth, as opposed to the sky or water or underground:
lower inside surface of a hollow space:
supporting surface of a structure:
part of the house assigned to the members of a legislative assembly:
right to speak:
nautical: near-horizontal part of the bottom of a vessel:
horizontal structure dividing a building:
mining: bottom of a pit, pothole or mine:
mathematics: the largest integer less than or equal to a given number:
gymnastics: floor-like carpeted surface:
finance: lower limit on the interest rate payable on an otherwise variable-rate loan:

Origin

Inherited from Middle English floor, floour, flor, flore, flour, flur, vlor, from Old Engl

Inherited from Middle English floor, floour, flor, flore, flour, flur, vlor, from Old English flōr (“floor, pavement; deck; gangplank”), from Proto-West Germanic *flōr, from Proto-Germanic *flōraz (“ground; floor”), from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₂ros (“floor”), from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₂- (“flat”).

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Forms

plural: floors
Singularfloor
Pluralfloors

regular

Synonyms

10 synonyms
right to speak:possessionB1
groundA1flightA2flooring
Close in meaning
  • the inside lower horizontal surface (as of a room, hallway, tent, or other structure):flooring
  • a structure consisting of a room or set of rooms at a single position along a vertical scale:levelstoreystory
  • a large room in a exchange where the trading is done:trading floor
  • a lower limit:base

Antonyms

2 antonyms
ceilingB2roofA2

Word family

101 related words
Relatedflooringmezzanineflooragefloorspacestraight-joint
Derivedfirst floorB1ground floorB1barnfloorcornfloordance floordeck floordrill floorearth floorfloorballfloorboardfloor boxfloor brokerfloorcarefloorcestfloorclothfloorcoveringfloordrobefloor effectfloorerfloor exercisefloor-fillerfloor-fillingfloor-friendlyfloorful

Lessons for this word

1 lessons

Collocations

12 patterns
  • on the floor
  • the third floor
  • third floor
  • the kitchen floor
  • kitchen floor
  • mopping the floor
  • sweep the floor
  • waxed the floor
  • the second floor
  • off the floor
  • the fifth floor
  • the floor is

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
floodwaterflooffloorboardflop

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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