Floor

What “Floor” means

Noun

1. The interior bottom or surface of a house or building; the supporting surface of a room.
2. The bottom surface of a natural structure, entity, or space (e.g. cave, forest, ocean, desert, etc.); the ground (surface of the Earth).
3. The ground.
4. A structure formed of beams, girders, etc, with proper covering, which divides a building horizontally into storeys/stories.
5. The supporting surface or platform of a structure such as a bridge.

Verb

1. To cover or furnish with a floor.
2. To strike down or lay level with the floor; to knock down.
3. To hang (a picture on exhibition) near the base of a wall, where it cannot easily be seen.
4. To push (a pedal) down to the floor, especially to accelerate.
5. To silence by a conclusive answer or retort.

Where the word comes from

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”)

Business name ideas with “Floor”

Industries where “Floor” fits

We suggest this word for 3 business types and industries, including:

• Flooring Company
• Floor Covering Stores
• Flooring Contractors