GROUND-FLOOR

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does ground-floor mean? 

• GROUND-FLOOR (adjective)
  The adjective GROUND-FLOOR has 1 sense:

1. on the floor closest to level with the ground

  Familiarity information: GROUND-FLOOR used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GROUND-FLOOR (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

On the floor closest to level with the ground

Context example:

the ground-floor entrance is kept locked

Similar:

downstair; downstairs (on or of lower floors of a building)

 Context examples 

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

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

The professional business of Mr. Waterbrook's establishment was done on the ground-floor, and the genteel business (of which there was a good deal) in the upper part of the building.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

His room was on the ground-floor, and he could get out when he liked.

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

Aye, aye, the parsonage is but a small one, said she, after the first ebullition of surprise and satisfaction was over, and very likely MAY be out of repair; but to hear a man apologising, as I thought, for a house that to my knowledge has five sitting rooms on the ground-floor, and I think the housekeeper told me could make up fifteen beds!—and to you too, that had been used to live in Barton cottage!

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

I had a vague sensation of being, as it were, on view, when the maid opened it; and of wavering, somehow, across a hall with a weather-glass in it, into a quiet little drawing-room on the ground-floor, commanding a neat garden.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

On the ground-floor is Peggotty's kitchen, opening into a back yard; with a pigeon-house on a pole, in the centre, without any pigeons in it; a great dog-kennel in a corner, without any dog; and a quantity of fowls that look terribly tall to me, walking about, in a menacing and ferocious manner.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

In an office that might have been on the ground-floor of the Tower of Babel, it was so massively constructed, we were presented to our old schoolmaster; who was one of a group, composed of two or three of the busier sort of magistrates, and some visitors they had brought.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)