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Synonyms for floor

27 synonyms
4 antonyms
3 meanings

noun
verb

Most common

level storey ground bottom sales floor shop floor trading floor pavement

Synonyms by meaning

Noun

1. Level

level, storey, story

Other

ground, flat, bottom, pavement, base, shop floor, sales floor, trading floor, possession UK, entier, cold cock slang

Verb

1. Knock down

knock down, deck informal, down, fell, throw, grass, prostrate, dump

2. Shock

shock, take aback

Other

non-plus, overthrow, astonish

Antonyms

ceiling, roof, cap

All antonyms of floor →

Definitions

n. 1
The interior bottom or surface of a house or building; the supporting surface of a room.
The room has a wooden floor.
v. 1
To cover or furnish with a floor.
floor a house with pine boards
v. 2
To strike down or lay level with the floor; to knock down.

Related words

Word family: floorball floor-filling floor-friendly floor-walker floorwoman floorwork
Phrases: floor it sales floor threshing floor first floor floor heating floor lamp floor model ocean floor

Forms

Plural: floors → levels, storeys, stories, grounds…
Past participle: floored
e.g. floored → decked, downed, felled, thrun…

Example sentences

level The mountain is about 3000 meters above sea level.
storey I use a double-storey 'a' when writing by hand.
ground In Singapore, it is a crime to spit on the ground.
bottom There must be something at the bottom of all this.

Popularity over time

Word	1850 → 2019	Trend
floor		rising
level		steady
storey		steady
ground		steady
bottom		steady

Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.

By length

4 letters: down¹, base¹, fell¹, flat¹, deck¹, dump¹
5 letters: story², level², throw¹, shock¹, grass¹
6 letters: ground¹, bottom², storey², entier
8 letters: pavement², astonish³
9 letters: overthrow³, prostrate²
10 letters: possession³

The small number after each word is its number of syllables (story² = 2 syllables).

In other languages

Français: plancher
Italiano: pavimento
Español: suelo