floor

About 59.00 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. symbol floor function

   floor(4.9) = 4

2. noun The interior bottom or surface of a house or building; the supporting surface of a room.

   The room has a wooden floor.

3. noun 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.

4. noun The ground.

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

5. noun A structure formed of beams, girders, etc, with proper covering, which divides a building horizontally into storeys/stories.
6. noun The supporting surface or platform of a structure such as a bridge.

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

7. noun A storey/story of a building.

   For years we lived on the third floor.

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

Similar words

deck storey dump level coldcock knock down base story shock stun

Often followed by

of and in to was with is space plan

Word family

floored floorer floorers flooring floors held the floor hold the floor holding the floor holds the floor