FLOOR

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does floor mean? 

• FLOOR (noun)
  The noun FLOOR has 10 senses:

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

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

3. a lower limit

4. the ground on which people and animals move about

5. the bottom surface of any lake or other body of water

6. the lower inside surface of any hollow structure

7. the occupants of a floor

8. the parliamentary right to address an assembly

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

10. a large room in a exchange where the trading is done

  Familiarity information: FLOOR used as a noun is familiar.

• FLOOR (verb)
  The verb FLOOR has 2 senses:

1. surprise greatly; knock someone's socks off

2. knock down with force

  Familiarity information: FLOOR used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FLOOR (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

floor; flooring

Context example:

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

Hypernyms ("floor" is a kind of...):

horizontal surface; level (a flat surface at right angles to a plumb line)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "floor"):

dance floor (a bare floor polished for dancing)

floorboard (the floor of an automobile)

parquet; parquet floor (a floor made of parquetry)

truck bed (the floor or bottom of a wagon or truck or trailer)

bell deck (a floor under the bells of an open belfry)

Holonyms ("floor" is a part of...):

hall; hallway (an interior passage or corridor onto which rooms open)

room (an area within a building enclosed by walls and floor and ceiling)

Derivation:

floor (knock down with force)

Sense 2

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

floor; level; storey; story

Context example:

what level is the office on?

Hypernyms ("floor" is a kind of...):

construction; structure (a thing constructed; a complex entity constructed of many parts)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "floor"):

first floor; ground floor; ground level (the floor of a building that is at or nearest to the level of the ground around the building)

entresol; mezzanine; mezzanine floor (intermediate floor just above the ground floor)

loft (floor consisting of a large unpartitioned space over a factory or warehouse or other commercial space)

attic; garret; loft (floor consisting of open space at the top of a house just below roof; often used for storage)

basement; cellar (the lowermost portion of a structure partly or wholly below ground level; often used for storage)

Holonyms ("floor" is a part of...):

building; edifice (a structure that has a roof and walls and stands more or less permanently in one place)

Sense 3

Meaning:

A lower limit

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

base; floor

Context example:

the government established a wage floor

Hypernyms ("floor" is a kind of...):

control (the economic policy of controlling or limiting or curbing prices or wages etc.)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "floor"):

price floor (floor below which prices are not allowed to fall)

wage floor (floor below which wages are not allowed to fall)

Sense 4

Meaning:

The ground on which people and animals move about

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Context example:

the fire spared the forest floor

Hypernyms ("floor" is a kind of...):

dry land; earth; ground; land; solid ground; terra firma (the solid part of the earth's surface)

Derivation:

floor (knock down with force)

Sense 5

Meaning:

The bottom surface of any lake or other body of water

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Hypernyms ("floor" is a kind of...):

Earth's surface; surface (the outermost level of the land or sea)

Holonyms ("floor" is a part of...):

lake (a body of (usually fresh) water surrounded by land)

Sense 6

Meaning:

The lower inside surface of any hollow structure

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Context example:

the floor of the cave

Hypernyms ("floor" is a kind of...):

Earth's surface; surface (the outermost level of the land or sea)

Holonyms ("floor" is a part of...):

cave (a geological formation consisting of an underground enclosure with access from the surface of the ground or from the sea)

Sense 7

Meaning:

The occupants of a floor

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Context example:

the whole floor complained about the lack of heat

Hypernyms ("floor" is a kind of...):

assemblage; gathering (a group of persons together in one place)

Sense 8

Meaning:

The parliamentary right to address an assembly

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Context example:

the chairman granted him the floor

Hypernyms ("floor" is a kind of...):

right (an abstract idea of that which is due to a person or governmental body by law or tradition or nature)

Sense 9

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Context example:

there was a motion from the floor

Hypernyms ("floor" is a kind of...):

hall (a large room for gatherings or entertainment)

Sense 10

Meaning:

A large room in a exchange where the trading is done

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

floor; trading floor

Context example:

he is a floor trader

Hypernyms ("floor" is a kind of...):

room (an area within a building enclosed by walls and floor and ceiling)

Holonyms ("floor" is a part of...):

exchange (a workplace for buying and selling; open only to members)

• FLOOR (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they floor    ... he / she / it floors   
Past simple: floored   
Past participle: floored   
-ing form: flooring   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Surprise greatly; knock someone's socks off

Classified under:

Verbs of feeling

Synonyms:

ball over; blow out of the water; floor; shock; take aback

Context example:

I was floored when I heard that I was promoted

Hypernyms (to "floor" is one way to...):

surprise (cause to be surprised)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "floor"):

galvanise; galvanize; startle (to stimulate to action)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody

Sentence examples:

The bad news will floor him
The good news will floor her
The performance is likely to floor Sue

Sense 2

Meaning:

Knock down with force

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

coldcock; deck; dump; floor; knock down

Context example:

He decked his opponent

Hypernyms (to "floor" is one way to...):

beat (hit repeatedly)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s somebody

Sentence example:

The fighter managed to floor his opponent

Derivation:

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

floor (the ground on which people and animals move about)

 Context examples 

Now, I found that one of them was lying on the floor, one was on the side table near the window, and the third was where I had left it.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

This he placed in the middle of the floor and, squatting down upon a stool in front of it, he threw back the lid.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

When they were sat down, the farmer placed me at some distance from him on the table, which was thirty feet high from the floor.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

The upstairs he could rent, and the whole ground-floor of both buildings would be Higginbotham's Cash Store.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

When she was halfway across the room there came a great shriek from the wind, and the house shook so hard that she lost her footing and sat down suddenly upon the floor.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

You may have sent in your tuition check, paid to have your floors fixed, sent in estimated taxes, or sent a deposit on your child’s music class for the coming season.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

The whirl culminated in a collision with a chair, and the man and woman crashed to the floor in a wild struggling fall that extended itself across half the length of the room.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

Carefully avoiding noise, I lifted the trap-door in the floor and set it to one side.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Finally, I went to the landlord, who is an accountant living on the ground floor, and I asked him if he could tell me what had become of the Red-headed League.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The log-house was made of unsquared trunks of pine—roof, walls, and floor.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)