floor

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

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

   They needed rugs to cover the bare floors.

2. 2
   noun

   A level or story of a building.

   Our office is on the third floor.

3. 3
   noun

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

   The government set a floor for the minimum wage.

Common collocations

• clean the floor Verb + noun
• ground floor Adjective + noun
• stone floor Adjective + noun
• top floor Adjective + noun
• wooden floor Adjective + noun
• mop the floor Verb + noun
• sweep the floor Verb + noun
• polish the floor Verb + noun
• factory floor Noun + noun
• floor joist Noun + noun

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…

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