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floors

The correct spelling is floors.

How to pronounce floors

noun

Say it like: Floo-rs

The correct spelling is floors. The interior bottom or surface of a house or building; the supporting surface of a room. For example: "The room has a wooden floor."

Usage Examples

The room has a wooden floor.

Many sunken ships rest on the ocean floor.

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

Meanings

noun

  1. 1.The interior bottom or surface of a house or building; the supporting surface of a room.
  2. 2.Ground (surface of the Earth, as opposed to the sky or water or underground).
  3. 3.The lower inside surface of a hollow space.
  4. 4.A structure formed of beams, girders, etc, with proper covering, which divides a building horizontally into storeys/stories.
  5. 5.The supporting surface or platform of a structure such as a bridge.

verb

  1. 1.To cover or furnish with a floor.
  2. 2.To strike down or lay level with the floor; to knock down.
  3. 3.(driving) To accelerate rapidly.
  4. 4.To silence by a conclusive answer or retort.
  5. 5.To amaze or greatly surprise.

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