ground-floor

1. 1.

   on the floor closest to level with the ground

   “the ground-floor entrance is kept locked”

   Similardownstairs

Questions about ground-floor

What does ground-floor mean?

ground-floor means "on the floor closest to level with the ground".

How many syllables are in ground-floor?

ground-floor has 2 syllables and divides as ground--floor under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is ground-floor a common word?

ground-floor is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.