floor

CEFRA1

/flɔː/

noun

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In plain English

  1. 01

    noun

    The surface you walk on inside a building.

  2. 02

    noun

    Extra detail

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

Examples

  • I can place the palms of my hands on the floor without bending my knees.

  • They're renting a furnished flat on the third floor.

At a glance

Sits at A1 on the CEFR scale

Senses
5
Parts of speech
1
Citations
5
Synonyms
4

Also pronounced

  • /floɹ/

Deep Dive

noun

Extra meanings

  1. The ground.

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

  3. A structure formed of beams, girders, etc, with proper covering, which divides a building horizontally into storeys/stories.

More examples

In context

  • Your glasses fell on the floor.

  • Many sunken ships rest on the ocean floor.

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

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Origin

noun

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”). Cognates Cognate with Scots flair, fluir (“floor”), Saterland Frisian Floor (“floor”), Dutch vloer (“floor”), German Flur (“corridor, hall, hallway, stairwell”), Limburgish Vlǫǫr (“floor”), Low German Floor (“hallway or entrance to a house”), Luxembourgish Flouer (“countryside, farmland”); also Breton and Cornish leur (“floor, ground, surface”), Irish lár (“floor, ground”), Scottish Gaelic l...