floor

noun
flô

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

Example

“The room has a wooden floor.”

Other meanings

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

A kind of

horizontal surface

Kinds of floor

dance floor
truck bed

Antonyms

ceiling

Related words

floor plan

Example sentences

“The floor is covered in rodent droppings.”
Tatoeba · ddnktr · CC0
“They mapped the sea floor carefully.”
Tatoeba · Igider · CC0
“What floor are you on?”
Tatoeba · shekitten · CC0

Word history

From Old English "flōr" (floor, pavement; deck; gangplank).

Where this comes from

This definition is adapted from “floor” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.