floor

1. 1.

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

   “they needed rugs to cover the bare floors”

   “we spread our sleeping bags on the dry floor of the tent”

   Synonymsflooring

   Broaderhorizontal surface

   Narrowerbell deckdance floorfloorboardparquettruck bed

   Part ofroomhallway
2. 2.

   a structure consisting of a room or set of rooms at a single position along a vertical scale

   “what level is the office on?”

   Synonymslevelstoreystory

   Broaderstructure

   Narrowerbasementground floorloftmezzanine

   Part ofbuilding
3. 3.

   a lower limit

   “the government established a wage floor”

   Synonymsbase

   Broadercontrol

   Narrowerprice floorwage floor
4. 4.

   the ground on which people and animals move about

   “the fire spared the forest floor”

   Broaderland
5. 5.

   the bottom surface of any lake or other body of water

   Broadersurface

   Part oflake
6. 6.

   the lower inside surface of any hollow structure

   “the floor of the pelvis”

   “the floor of the cave”

   Broadersurface

   Part ofcave
7. 7.

   the occupants of a floor

   “the whole floor complained about the lack of heat”

   Broadergathering
8. 8.

   the parliamentary right to address an assembly

   “the chairman granted him the floor”

   Broaderright
9. 9.

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

   “there was a motion from the floor”

   Broaderhall
10. 10.

    a large room in a exchange where the trading is done

    “he is a floor trader”

    Synonymstrading floor

    Broaderroom

    Part ofexchange

1. 1.

   surprise greatly; knock someone's socks off

   “I was floored when I heard that I was promoted”

   Synonymsshockball overblow out of the watertake aback

   Broadersurprise

   Narrowerstartle
2. 2.

   knock down with force

   “He decked his opponent”

   Synonymsdeckcoldcockdumpknock down

   Broaderbeat

Other forms of floor

plural

floors·

past tense

floored·

present participle

flooring·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about floor

What does floor mean?

floor means "the inside lower horizontal surface (as of a room, hallway, tent, or other structure)". That is the primary sense; the word has 12 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in floor?

floor has 1 syllable: floor. In IPA it is /ˈflɔɹ/.

What is another word for floor?

Close synonyms include flooring, level, storey, story, base. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is floor a common word?

floor is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.