Dictionary Entry
The interior bottom or surface of a house or building; the supporting surface of a room.
In a Sentence
“The room has a wooden floor.”
Origin
Origin details are still being enriched for this entry.
Common Phrases
Poetry examples for “floors”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →the rain. Fearfully wails the wind down distant corridors, and there comes
the swish and sigh of rushes lifted off the floors. The arras blows sidewise
out from the wall, and then falls back again.
Read full poem →Wasting the golden hours indoors,
Washing windows and scrubbing floors.
Read full poem →Words of the past that shook the old man's cheek
Like dead, remembered footsteps on old floors.
Read full poem →When I look up, to drop on a new range
Of walls and floors, another home than this?
Nay, wilt thou fill that place by me which is
Read full poem →Mother can't bear to turn him out of doors
and never noises now of dirty floors
Father will laugh but lets her have her way
Read full poem →With blunt and bleeding nails;
We rubbed the doors, and scrubbed the floors,
And cleaned the shining rails:
Read full poem →'In to the upper doors,
Nor count compartments of the floors,
But mount to paradise
Read full poem →Of my bird's song: 'Live out of doors,
In the great woods, on prairie floors.
I dine in the sun; when he sinks in the sea,
Read full poem →With stone and lead to unprotected glass:
Shatter it inward on the unswept floors.
How had the tender verse escaped their outrage?