ground-floor
- adjective
- /ˈgraʊndˌflɔr/
- UK
- We are looking at the ground-floor window from the street.
Examples
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Just look at all the vacant ground-floor retail and buildings surrounding the site.
Blog text (13) -
AIP will also provide an employment center in the ground-floor lobby of the convention center.
Academic text (1993) -
It's on the ground floor.
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"Red, go in and check the ground floor."
Fiction book (2001) -
The production and advertising staff were on the ground floor.
Fiction book (2001) -
I'm downstairs, ground floor, if you need anything.
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The Meatpacking District, on the other hand, offered a ground-floor space, plus good foot traffic.
Blog text (5) -
The Juggler lived on the ground floor of a five-story building across from the old cinema.
Fiction book (1995) -
Finally, Lauren and I sat in the ground floor consulting room as Addie listened to her answering machine.
Fiction book (1997) -
The restaurant has its main entrance on the ground-floor of the building.
Synonyms
The floor at ground level in American English and the floor above the ground floor in British English
A building level at the same height as the street
The height of the ground outside or the floor at that height
Antonyms
How High
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Ground-floor is made from ground ('earth') and floor ('level inside a building'). So a ground-floor room or shop is the one that is at the same level as the earth outside and often opens straight onto the street or garden.