first floor
- the ground floor of a building.
- the floor above the ground floor of a building.
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Origin of first floor
First recorded in 1655–65
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Examples from the Web for first floor
Contemporary Examples
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.
West Virginia Heathers: Was Skylar Neese Murdered by Her Best Friends?Caroline Linton
December 19, 2013
He commenced firing down on people having their breakfast in the first-floor cafeteria.
Inside the Washington Navy Yard’s Building 197 During Alexis’s RampageMichael Daly
September 19, 2013
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.
Historical Examples
I am no higher than the first-floor, and we needn't trouble the man at the lift.
Despair's Last JourneyDavid Christie Murray
The old fellow sleeps in the first-floor room on the corner.
The Golden FaceWilliam Le Queux
The first-floor front and his wife had seen better days; in stocks, they were.
Old ValentinesMunson Aldrich Havens
We read with eagerness the cast-off newspapers of the first-floor gentlemen.
Richard Carvel, CompleteWinston Churchill
Sure enough, they were following her through this first-floor corridor.
The Saracen: The Holy WarRobert Shea
first floor
- British the floor or storey of a building immediately above the ground floorUS and Canadian term: second floor
- US and Canadian another term for ground floor
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