Antonyms for floor
| Grammar : Noun, verb |
| Spell : flawr, flohr |
| Phonetic Transcription : flɔr, floʊr |
Definition of floor
Origin :- Old English flor "floor, pavement, ground, bottom (of a lake, etc.)," from Proto-Germanic *floruz "floor" (cf. Middle Dutch and Dutch vloer, Old Norse flor "floor," Middle High German vluor, German Flur "field, meadow"), from PIE *plaros "flat surface" (cf. Welsh llawr "ground"), enlarged from *pele- (2) "flat, to spread" (see plane (n.1)).
- Meaning "level of a house" is from 1580s. The figurative sense in legislative assemblies (as opposed to the platform) is first recorded 1774. Spanish suelo "floor" is from Latin solum "bottom, ground, soil;" German Boden is cognate with English bottom. Floor plan attested from 1867.
- noun bottom of a room; level of a multistory building
- verb perplex, confound
- He began to pace the floor again from one room to the other.
- Extract from : « The Spenders » by Harry Leon Wilson
- Percival had walked the floor in deep attention to the old man's words.
- Extract from : « The Spenders » by Harry Leon Wilson
- She fell to the floor in helpless, shrieking laughter when he came.
- Extract from : « The Spenders » by Harry Leon Wilson
- The trousers which had lain on the floor beside Hank's bed were no longer there.
- Extract from : « Way of the Lawless » by Max Brand
- When this was swept away the floor presented no suspicious traces.
- Extract from : « Way of the Lawless » by Max Brand
- She still held the two she had picked up from the floor in her one hand.
- Extract from : « Grace Harlowe's Return to Overton Campus » by Jessie Graham Flower
- He swept up the blankets and went down the stairs to the first floor.
- Extract from : « Way of the Lawless » by Max Brand
- He led the way into the house and picked up one of the posters, which lay on the floor.
- Extract from : « Way of the Lawless » by Max Brand
- It was a very old man who held, or tried to hold, Andrew from falling to the floor.
- Extract from : « Way of the Lawless » by Max Brand
- Peers, Commons, and visitors filled the floor and galleries.
- Extract from : « The Grand Old Man » by Richard B. Cook
Synonyms for floor
- baffle
- basement
- beat
- bewilder
- boards
- bowl over
- bring down
- bring up short
- canvas
- carpet
- cellar
- conquer
- deck
- defeat
- discomfit
- disconcert
- down
- downstairs
- drop
- dumbfound
- fell
- flat
- flatten
- flooring
- ground
- knock down
- landing
- lay low
- level
- lowest point
- mat
- mezzanine
- nadir
- nonplus
- overthrow
- prostrate
- puzzle
- rug
- stage
- story
- stump
- throw
- tier
- upstairs
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