floor
The interior bottom or surface of a house or building; the supporting surface of a room.
Noun 4 meanings
The interior bottom or surface of a house or building; the supporting surface of a room.
“The room has a wooden floor.”
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.
The supporting surface or platform of a structure such as a bridge.
“Wooden planks of the old bridge's floor were nearly rotten.”
Verb 4 meanings
To cover or furnish with a floor.
“floor a house with pine boards”
To strike down or lay level with the floor; to knock down.
To hang (a picture on exhibition) near the base of a wall, where it cannot easily be seen.
To silence by a conclusive answer or retort.
“floor an opponent”
Etymology
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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FLOOR at a glance
FLOOR has 5 letters and scores 8 points in Scrabble (F 4 + L 1 + O 1 + O 1 + R 1) and 9 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #1,182 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
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