Synonyms for floor
flɔr, floʊrfloor

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1. floornoun

   Antonyms:
   ceiling

2. floornoun

   Antonyms:
   ceiling

3. floornoun

   The floor of 4.5 is 4.

   Antonyms:
   ceiling

4. floornoun

   Antonyms:
   ceiling

5. floornoun

   Antonyms:
   ceiling

6. floornoun

   To cover or furnish with a floor.

   floor a house with pine boards

   Antonyms:
   ceiling

7. floorverb

   To strike down or lay level with the floor; to knock down.

   As soon as our driver saw an insurgent in a car holding a detonation device, he floored the pedal and was 2,000 feet away when that car bomb exploded. We escaped certain death in the nick of time!

   Antonyms:
   ceiling

8. floorverb

   A structure formed of beams, girders, etc, with proper covering, which divides a building horizontally into storeys/stories.

   Antonyms:
   ceiling

9. floornoun

   The supporting surface or platform of a structure such as a bridge.

   Wooden planks of the old bridge's floor were nearly rotten.

   Antonyms:
   ceiling

10. floornoun

    To finish or make an end of.

    For years we lived on the third floor.

    Antonyms:
    ceiling

11. floornoun

    Antonyms:
    ceiling

12. floornoun

    Hence, the right to speak at a given time during a debate or other public event.

    Synonyms:
    possession

    Antonyms:
    ceiling

13. floornoun

    Antonyms:
    ceiling

14. floornoun

    Antonyms:
    ceiling

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1. floor, flooringnoun

   the inside lower horizontal surface (as of a room, hallway, tent, or other structure)

   "they needed rugs to cover the bare floors"; "we spread our sleeping bags on the dry floor of the tent"

   Synonyms:
   flooring, base, story, level, trading floor, storey

2. floor, level, storey, storynoun

   a structure consisting of a room or set of rooms at a single position along a vertical scale

   "what level is the office on?"

   Synonyms:
   narration, horizontal surface, account, narrative, grade, tale, storey, degree, base, flooring, tier, story, news report, trading floor, taradiddle, spirit level, write up, level, fib, chronicle, tarradiddle, layer, stage, history, point, stratum, report

3. floor, basenoun

   a lower limit

   "the government established a wage floor"

   Synonyms:
   foundation, foot, alkali, bag, radix, stand, al-Qaeda, al-Qa'ida, substructure, theme, flooring, radical, base, basis, trading floor, home, storey, groundwork, base of operations, understructure, story, infrastructure, al-Qaida, pedestal, root, fundament, stem, level, root word, cornerstone, nucleotide

4. floornoun

   the ground on which people and animals move about

   "the fire spared the forest floor"

   Synonyms:
   flooring, base, story, level, trading floor, storey

5. floornoun

   the bottom surface of any lake or other body of water

   Synonyms:
   flooring, base, story, level, trading floor, storey

6. floornoun

   the lower inside surface of any hollow structure

   "the floor of the pelvis"; "the floor of the cave"

   Synonyms:
   flooring, base, story, level, trading floor, storey

7. floornoun

   the occupants of a floor

   "the whole floor complained about the lack of heat"

   Synonyms:
   flooring, base, story, level, trading floor, storey

8. floornoun

   the parliamentary right to address an assembly

   "the chairman granted him the floor"

   Synonyms:
   flooring, base, story, level, trading floor, storey

9. floornoun

   the legislative hall where members debate and vote and conduct other business

   "there was a motion from the floor"

   Synonyms:
   flooring, base, story, level, trading floor, storey

10. floor, trading floorverb

    a large room in a exchange where the trading is done

    "he is a floor trader"

    Synonyms:
    flooring, base, story, level, trading floor, storey

11. shock, floor, ball over, blow out of the water, take abackverb

    surprise greatly; knock someone's socks off

    "I was floored when I heard that I was promoted"

    Synonyms:
    knock down, blow out of the water, dump, deck, appall, outrage, shock, scandalise, appal, scandalize, ball over, traumatize, coldcock, offend, traumatise, take aback

12. deck, coldcock, dump, knock down, floorverb

    knock down with force

    "He decked his opponent"

    Synonyms:
    grace, bedeck, adorn, blow out of the water, dump, deck, push down, decorate, shock, down, cut down, underprice, ball over, embellish, pull down, coldcock, ditch, bedight, beautify, knock down, plunge, take aback, blast

Matched Categories

1. • Cave
   • Control
   • Gathering
   • Hall
   • Lake
   • Land
   • Right
   • Structure
   • Surface
   • Surprise

Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. floorverb

   Synonyms:
   cover with a floor, put a floor on

2. floorverb

   Synonyms:
   overthrow, bring to the floor, knock down

3. floorverb

   Synonyms:
   prevail over (in argument), get the better of

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1. floornoun

   Synonyms:
   planching, pavement, story, loft

2. floorverb

   Synonyms:
   prostrate, fell, overthrow, embarrass, nonplus

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1. List of paraphrases for "floor":

   word, étage, piso, footwell, soil, hard-deck, storey, floor, speech, ground, deck, speaking, flooring, floors, statement, minimum, sol, planta, call, floorboard, upstairs, plant, reason

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1. List of known nicknames for "Floor":

   Marco de Falco

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1. Jamie Raskin:

   The rationale for empowering the committees to hold people in contempt is we will be able to save floor time for prescription drug reform and health care and the Equality Act and the Dream Act, so we will be able to both play offense on public policy while we're defending the Constitution.

2. Michael Tran:

   I think the market is really looking ahead to Doha, an agreement to freeze production does little to change physical balances. But constructive rhetoric could serve as a sentiment changer at a minimum, helping to legitimize the current rally and have the market hold the $40 a barrel level as the new psychological floor.

3. Goalkeeper Ali Badara Kamara:

   My mother was afraid (for) me to play football because she sees me as an amputee. She thought that if I fell on the floor, I would have another problem, but SLASA (has) taken me to Ghana, Kenya, Tanzania.

4. Senate Finance:

   Well, I don't like the fact that it's being delayed, i think that if they'd taken up the bill coming over from the House and put it on the floor and used regular order, it would have passed with a big margin.

5. Alisa Statman:

   He said that the one thing that brought him to his knees literally-- in grief -- was having to scrub his child's blood off the floor.