floor

A1 Topic:House & Home

US /flɔɹ/ UK /flɔː/ See IPA manual

noun Freq #815

Meanings

1

noun
The flat surface you walk on inside a room or building.

They needed rugs to cover the bare floors.
2

noun
A level or story of a building.

Our office is on the third floor.
3

noun
The lowest level allowed for a price, wage, or amount.

The government set a floor for the minimum wage.

Thesaurus

Synonyms

1 noun · the flat surface you walk... flooring

3 noun · the lowest level allowed... base

More flight ground

Opposites

ceiling roof

Word family

Forms flooredfloors

Derived forms barnfloorcornfloorearth-floorfloor-fillerfloor-lengthfloor-throughfloor-to-ceilingfloor-walkerflooragefloorballfloorboardfloorcare

Related forms floorage flooringfloorspacemezzaninestraight-joint

Common collocations

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…

*pleh₂- Proto-Indo-European floor Middle English flōr Old English *flōr Proto-West Germanic *flōraz Proto-Germanic *pleh₂ros Proto-Indo-European

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Topics

House & Home

# floor

**Type:** Word
**Level:** A1
**Part of speech:** noun
**IPA (US):** flɔɹ
**IPA (UK):** flɔː
**Frequency rank:** 815

## Meanings
1. The flat surface you walk on inside a room or building.
2. A level or story of a building.
3. The lowest level allowed for a price, wage, or amount.

## Examples
- They needed rugs to cover the bare floors.
- Our office is on the third floor.
- The government set a floor for the minimum wage.

## Synonyms
- flight
- flooring
- ground

## Antonyms
- ceiling
- roof

## Derived Forms
- barnfloor
- cornfloor
- earth-floor
- floor-filler
- floor-length
- floor-through
- floor-to-ceiling
- floor-walker
- floorage
- floorball
- floorboard
- floorcare

## Related Forms
- floorage
- flooring
- floorspace
- mezzanine
- straight-joint

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: *pleh₂-
- Root: floor
- Root: flōr
- Root: *flōr
- Root: *flōraz
- Root: *pleh₂ros

## 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…

## AI Etymology
Floor is 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”). In current use, the main senses are “The flat surface you walk on inside a room or building” and “A level or story of a building”.

## Topics
- House & Home

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