floor
the inside lower horizontal surface (as of a room, hallway, tent, or other structure)
How often you will meet it
Rank 651 of 71,295 words measured. It occurs 29,368 times across 155,139 chapters — 0.014% of every word in the library.
It belongs to the first 1,000 words, the band worth learning before any other.
What it means
noun
- the inside lower horizontal surface (as of a room, hallway, tent, or other structure) also: flooring they needed rugs to cover the bare floorswe spread our sleeping bags on the dry floor of the tent
- a structure consisting of a room or set of rooms at a single position along a vertical scale also: level, storey, story what level is the office on?
- a lower limit also: base the government established a wage floor
- the ground on which people and animals move about the fire spared the forest floor
- the bottom surface of any lake or other body of water
- the lower inside surface of any hollow structure the floor of the pelvisthe floor of the cave
floor in real books
Each sentence below was written by a published author and is taken from a different book in our library. Open one to read the passage it came from, with narration.
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Sitting on the floor, they unpacked it.
Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch · Alice Caldwell Hegan Rice · Chapter 1
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One man upon his legs--only one upon the floor?
Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 08, May 21, 1870 · Various · Chapter 1
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The floor was thronged with girls and young men.
Ethan Frome · Edith Wharton · Chapter 1
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To avoid that he hurried to the lower floor.
The Abandoned Room · Wadsworth Camp · Chapter 1
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They explored the first or ground floor, delighted as children playing burglars.
Actions and reactions · Rudyard Kipling · Chapter 1