FLOOR
What does "FLOOR" mean?
The lower surface of a room, on which one stands and walks.
Meanings
- The flat surface of a room that one walks on. The dog stretched out on the cool kitchen floor.
- A whole storey or level of a building. Her office is on the fourteenth floor.
- A lower limit below which a value may not fall. The contract set a price floor of ten dollars a unit. technical
- The part of an assembly where members debate and vote. The senator finally yielded the floor to her colleague.
- To knock someone down, or to astonish or overwhelm them. The news completely floored her. informal
Word origin
From Old English 'flor', meaning ground or pavement, from a Germanic and ultimately Indo-European root meaning a flat or level surface.
Remember it
FLOOR has the same double-O as 'door' - the floor meets the door at the threshold.
A little poem
Forty floors of glass-
below them all, the one floor
every shoe must meet.
haiku
Wordplay
- The price hit the floor, then the news floored me, so I sat on the floor. Three floors, one bad afternoon.
What it teaches
Set a floor before you reach for a ceiling; you fall less far when the bottom is named.
Quick facts
What does FLOOR mean?
The lower surface of a room, on which one stands and walks.
Is FLOOR a valid word?
Yes — FLOOR is one of the answer words in Wordul, the daily word game.
How many letters is FLOOR?
FLOOR has 5 letters and 1 syllable.
Where does FLOOR come from?
From Old English 'flor', meaning ground or pavement, from a Germanic and ultimately Indo-European root meaning a flat or level surface.
What can FLOOR teach us?
Set a floor before you reach for a ceiling; you fall less far when the bottom is named.
How players do
Be the first to solve it.