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floor

UK/flɔː/ US/floɹ/ very common informal slang uk
noun (9) verb (2)

noun

1.

the inside lower horizontal surface (as of a room or hallway)

  • “they needed rugs to cover the bare floors”
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2.

structure consisting of a room or set of rooms comprising a single level of a multilevel building

  • “what level is the office on?”
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3.

a lower limit

  • “the government established a wage floor”
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4.

the ground on which people and animals move about

  • “the fire spared the forest floor”
5.

the bottom surface of any a cave or lake etc.

6.

the occupants of a floor

  • “the whole floor complained about the lack of heat”
7.

the parliamentary right to address an assembly

  • “the chairman granted him the floor”
8.

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

  • “there was a motion from the floor”
9.

a large room in a stock exchange where the trading is done

  • “he is a floor trader”
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verb

1.

surprise greatly; knock someone''s socks off

  • “I was floored when I heard that I was promoted”
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2.

knock down with force

  • “He decked his opponent”
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Origin

Inherited from Middle English floor, floour, flor, flore, flour, flur, vlor, from Old English flōr (“floor, pavement; deck; gangplank”), from Proto-West Germanic *flōr, from Proto-Germanic *flōraz (“ground; floor”), from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₂ros (“floor”), from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₂- (“flat”). Cognates Cognate with Scots flair, fluir (“floor”), Saterland Frisian Floor (“floor”), Dutch vloer (“floor”), German Flur (“corridor, hall, hallway, stairwell”), Limburgish Vlǫǫr (“floor”), Low German Floor (“hallway or entrance to a house”), Luxembourgish Flouer (“countryside, farmland”); also Breton and Cornish leur (“floor, ground, surface”), Irish lár (“floor, ground”), Scottish Gaelic làr (“earth, floor, ground”), Manx laare (“bottom, deck, floor; level, storey”), Welsh llawr (“floor, ground”), Latin plānus (“even, flat, level”), Greek απαλάμη (apalámi), παλάμη (palámi, “hand, palm”), Albanian pëllëmbë (“palm”), Latgalian pluons (“thin”), Latvian plāns (“thin”), Lithuanian plonas (“fine, slender, thin”), Belarusian, Macedonian, Russian, and Ukrainian по́ле (póle, “field”), Bulgarian поле́ (polé, “field”), Czech, Polish, and Slovak pole (“field”), Serbo-Croatian по̏ље, pȍlje ...

Phrases

  • back to the floor
  • cross the floor
  • dance floor
  • deck floor
  • drill floor
  • earth floor
  • first floor
  • floor box

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