Skip to main content
Glite Dictionary
🪵 A wooden plank 🚗 Vehicle foot area
floorboard

floorboard

34 2.7
A long flat piece of wood that people walk on in a room
  • noun
  • /ˈflɔːrˌbɔrd/
translation icon : tabla
  • The old house had beautiful oak floorboards that creaked with each step.

We'd get real animals in the floorboards, in the walls.

Autoplay Next

Examples

  • Still on tiptoe, he enters his room, but the squeaky floorboards reveal his movement.

    Fiction book (1990)

  • The bedroom was large and low-ceilinged, with bare floorboards and heavy, rather well-made furniture.

    Fiction book (1994)

  • Half of these floorboards can go at any minute.

    Freedomland (2006)

  • Then I go down to the deck to start on the floorboards with the screw drill.

    Fiction book (1994)

  • For the first time, I notice that the floorboards feel a little springy.

    Fiction book (1995)

  • It's standing up really well actually, and we put a little spare floorboard down so that the stand doesn't scratch the floor and also there's no water damage when we water it.

  • Bent over, I moved around on my knees, rough floorboards threatening splinters even through my jeans.

  • I could still hear the floorboards creak downstairs very very lightly, as if someone was trying to tiptoe but was unable to.

  • I recognized the wide, rough floorboards and the walls' combination of gilt and smoke-blackened gray.

    Fiction book (1995)

  • Plopping him onto the wooden floorboards, she said, "You won't confess, but you will pray."

    Fiction book (1993)

Synonyms

board
vsfloorboard
274 1.0

A long flat piece of wood used for building or making furniture

is specifically the part that creates a floor surface in a building
plank
vsfloorboard
56 1.7

A long flat piece of wood used in building, like a floor or step

is the flat part of a floor usually narrower and for surface covering
deal
vsfloorboard
  • Archaic
11 7.8

A board of soft wood used in building

is the flat floor piece without restriction to softwood material
matchboard
vsfloorboard
  • UK
8.2

A board with a tongue and groove that fits tightly for floors or walls

is a flat piece forming a floor without interlocking edges

How Wide

sheet
140 1.4
plank
56 1.7
floorboard
34 2.7
slat
16 4.0

Surface Forms

floorboard singular
floorboards plural

Morphology

floorboard = floor + board (transparent) = floor + board

A straightforward compound: a board that is part of a floor, meaning directly follows from its parts.

Etymology

Floorboard is a simple compound of floor 'the bottom of a room' and board 'a flat piece of wood'. So a floorboard is literally a long, flat wooden board that makes part of a floor.