take the floor

1. 1.

   stand up to dance

   Broaderarise
2. 2.

   rise in order to make a speech or motion

Questions about take the floor

What does take the floor mean?

take the floor means "stand up to dance". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

Is take the floor a common word?

take the floor 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.