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[1] that part of a room, hallway, or the like, that forms its lower enclosing surface and upon which one walks.
[2] a continuous, supporting surface extending horizontally throughout a building, having a number of rooms, apartments, or the like, and constituting one level or stage in the structure; story.
[3] a level, supporting surface in any structure: the elevator floor.
[4] one of two or more layers of material composing a floor: rough floor; finish floor.
[5] a platform or prepared level area for a particular use: a threshing floor.
[6] the bottom of any more or less hollow place: the floor of a tunnel.
[7] a more or less flat extent of surface: the floor of the ocean.
[8] the part of a legislative chamber, meeting room, etc., where the members sit, and from which they speak.
[9] the right of one member to speak from such a place in preference to other members: The senator from Alaska has the floor.
[10] the area of a floor, as in a factory or retail store, where items are actually made or sold, as opposed to offices, supply areas, etc.: There are only two salesclerks on the floor.
[11] the main part of a stock or commodity exchange or the like, as distinguished from the galleries, platform, etc.
[12] the bottom, base, or minimum charged, demanded, or paid: The government avoided establishing a price or wage floor.
[13] Mining . an underlying stratum, as of ore, usually flat.
[14] Nautical . the bottom of a hull. any of a number of deep, transverse framing members at the bottom of a steel or iron hull, generally interrupted by and joined to any vertical keel or keelsons. the lowermost member of a frame in a wooden vessel.
[15] to cover or furnish with a floor.
[16] to bring down to the floor or ground; knock down: He floored his opponent with one blow.
[17] to overwhelm; defeat.
[18] to confound or puzzle; nonplus: I was floored by the problem.
[19] Also floorboard. to push (a foot-operated accelerator pedal) all the way down to the floor of a vehicle, for maximum speed or power.
[20] mop /wipe the floor with , Informal . to overwhelm completely; defeat: He expected to mop the floor with his opponents.
[21] take the floor , to arise to address a meeting.
[22] Also called: flooring the inner lower surface of a room
[23] a storey of a building the second floor
[24] a flat bottom surface in or on any structure the floor of a lift ; a dance floor
[25] the bottom surface of a tunnel, cave, river, sea, etc
[26] mining an underlying stratum
[27] nautical the bottom, or the lowermost framing members at the bottom, of a vessel
[28] that part of a legislative hall in which debate and other business is conducted
[29] the right to speak in a legislative or deliberative body (esp in the phrases get, have, or be given the floor )
[30] the room in a stock exchange where trading takes place
[31] the earth; ground
[32] a minimum price charged or paid a wage floor
[33] take the floor to begin dancing on a dance floor
[34] to cover with or construct a floor
[35] (tr) to knock to the floor or ground
[36] (tr) informal to disconcert, confound, or defeat to be floored by a problem

Words related to Floored

floorbaffle, stump, dumbfound, bewilder, level, beat, overthrow, puzzle, drop, disconcert, down, discomfit, fell, conquer, flatten, defeat, prostrate, nonplus, throw, ground

Words nearby Floored

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Origin of Floored

before 900; Middle English flor, Old English flōr; cognate with Old Norse flōr, Middle Low German vlōr, Middle High German vluor (German Flur )

Other words from Floored

floor·less , adjective
un·der·floor , noun
un·floor , verb (used with object)

Word origin for Floored

Old English flōr ; related to Old Norse flōrr , Middle Low German vlōr floor, Latin plānus level, Greek planan to cause to wander

Synonyms for Floored

baffle, beat, bewilder, conquer, defeat, discomfit, disconcert, down, drop, dumbfound, fell, flatten, ground, level, nonplus, overthrow, prostrate, puzzle, stump, throw, bowl over, bring down, bring up short, knock down, lay low