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first floor
noun
- the ground floor of a building.
- the floor above the ground floor of a building.
first floor
noun
- the floor or storey of a building immediately above the ground floor US and Canadian termsecond floor
- another term for ground floor
Word History and Origins
Origin of first floor1
Example Sentences
Now, some of the kindergarten children were standing straight as soldiers in a line at the door of their first-floor classroom.
In particular, Skylar had been caught frequently sneaking out of her first-floor bedroom window at night.
He commenced firing down on people having their breakfast in the first-floor cafeteria.
According to a 2008 Boston Globe profile of Romney, four portraits hang in the first-floor hallway of his house in Belmont, Mass.
Inside a first-floor chapel, the floor was stained with the blood of victims whose bodies were dragged into the building.
On this balcony, which stretched along the whole range of first-floor bedrooms, he stood for a while, pondering deeply.
I took up my position at the Maison-d'or, in one of the first-floor rooms, and did not lose sight of the window for an instant.
All B—— turned out, but did not obstruct my view, for I was at the large first-floor window and not ten yards away.
Mrs. Errington occupied the two rooms on the first-floor above Mr. Diamond's parlours.
A very mild reading-man had attempted his life by dropping a Liddell and Scott on to his head from a first-floor room.
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