flooring

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”

   Synonymsfloor

   Broaderhorizontal surface

   Narrowerbell deckdance floorfloorboardparquettruck bed

   Part ofroomhallway
2. 2.

   building material used in laying floors

   Broaderbuilding material

Other forms of flooring

plural

floorings·

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 flooring

What does flooring mean?

flooring means "the inside lower horizontal surface (as of a room, hallway, tent, or other structure)". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in flooring?

flooring has 2 syllables: floo-ring. The stress falls on "floo". In IPA it is /ˈflɔɹɪŋ/.

What is another word for flooring?

Close synonyms include floor. 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 flooring a common word?

flooring is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.