English

Pronunciation

• IPA : /flɔː(r)/

  Homophones: flaw (in non-rhotic accents)

  Rhymes: -ɔː(r)/

Noun

floor (plural floors)

1. The bottom or lower part of any room; the supporting surface of a room.
2. A structure formed of beams, girders, etc, with proper covering, which divides a building horizontally into storeys/stories.
3. The supporting surface or platform of a structure such as a bridge.
4. A storey/story of a building.
5. In a legislative assembly , the part of the house assigned to the members.
6. (US) Hence, the right to speak at a given time in a legislative assembly.
7. (nautical) That part of the bottom of a vessel on each side of the keelson which is most nearly horizontal.
8. (mining) The rock underlying a stratified or nearly horizontal deposit.
9. (mining) A horizontal, flat ore body.

Synonyms

• (right to speak): (British) possession

Translations

lower part of a room

horizontal structure dividing a building

storey/story

supporting surface of a structure

part of the house assigned to the members of a legislative assembly

right to speak in a legislative assembly

near-horizontal part of a vessel

rock underlying a stratified or nearly horizontal deposit

horizontal, flat ore body

Still to be transferred to tables (numbers might not match up)

• Danish: gulv n (1); dæk n (2); etage c (4)
• Slovene: tla n pl (1), nadstropje n (4)

Transitive verb

to floor (present participle flooring, past tense and past participle floored)

1. To cover (something) with a floor; to furnish (something) with a floor.

   floor a house with pine boards

2. To strike down or lay level (something or someone) with the floor; to knock (something or someone) down
3. Hence, to silence (someone) by a conclusive answer or retort.

   floor an opponent

   Floored or crushed by him. — Coleridge

4. (colloquial) To finish or make an end of (something).

   floor a college examination

   I've floored my little-go work — ed Hughes

Translations

cover with a floor

strike down

silence with a conclusive answer

colloquial: to finish or make an end of

To be checked and transferred to the appropriate table(s) by native speakers (numbering might not be correct):

• Danish: lægge gulv (1); nedlægge (2)

Related terms

• floor cloth
• floor cramp
• floor light
• flooring
• floor plan