floor

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   the inside lower horizontal surface (as of a room, hallway, tent, or other structure)

   they needed rugs to cover the bare floors

2. 2
   noun

   a large room in a exchange where the trading is done

   They are a floor trader.

3. 3
   noun

   the legislative hall where members debate and vote and conduct other business

   there was a motion from the floor

4. 4
   noun

   the parliamentary right to address an assembly

   The chair granted the speaker the floor.

5. 5
   noun

   a lower limit

   the government established a wage floor

6. 6
   noun

   the occupants of a floor

   the whole floor complained about the lack of heat

7. 7
   noun

   the ground on which people and animals move about

   the fire spared the forest floor

8. 8
   noun

   the lower inside surface of any hollow structure

   the floor of the pelvis

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”). Cognates Cognate with Scots flair, fluir (“floor”), Saterland Frisian Floor (“floor”), Dutch vloer (“floor”), German Flur (“corridor, hall, hallway, stairwell”), Limburgish Vlǫǫr (“floor”), Low German Floor (“hallway or entrance to a house”), Luxembourgish Flouer (“countryside, farmland”); also…