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The interior bottom or surface of a house or building; the supporting surface of a room.countable
- The room has a wooden floor.
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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.
- Many sunken ships rest on the ocean floor.
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The ground.UKcolloquialdialectal
- After stepping off the bus, my wallet fell on the floor.
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A structure formed of beams, girders, etc, with proper covering, which divides a building horizontally into storeys/stories.
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The supporting surface or platform of a structure such as a bridge.
- Wooden planks of the old bridge's floor were nearly rotten.
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A storey/story of a building.countable
- For years we lived on the third floor.
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In a parliament, the part of the house assigned to the members, as opposed to the viewing gallery.
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The right to speak at a given time during a debate or other public event.broadly
- Will the senator from Arizona yield the floor?
- The mayor often gives a lobbyist the floor.
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That part of the bottom of a vessel on each side of the keelson which is most nearly horizontal.
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A horizontal, flat ore body; the rock underlying a stratified or nearly horizontal deposit.
syn. floor · flooring · ground · flight
ant. ceiling · roof