Ground Floor

Definition: Ground Floor

Ground Floor

Noun

1. The floor of a building that is at or nearest to the level of the ground around the building.

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Building & Civil Engineering

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Synonyms: Ground Floor

Base

Noun: base, basement; plinth, dado, wainscot; baseboard, mopboard; bedrock, hardpan; foundation; (support); substructure, substratum, ground, earth, pavement, floor, paving, flag, carped, ground floor, deck; footing, ground work, basis; hold, bilge.

Lowness

Molehill; lowlands; basement floor, ground floor; rez de chaussee; cellar; hold, bilge; feet, heels.

Receptacle

Attic, loft, garret, clerestory; cellar, vault, hold, cockpit; cubbyhole; cook house; entre-sol; mezzanine floor; ground floor, rez-de-chaussee; basement, kitchen, pantry, bawarchi-khana, scullery, offices; storeroom; (depository); lumber room; dairy, laundry.

Crosswords: Ground Floor

Unusual Ground Floor Conversion (1987)

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Books

• Concrete Ground Floor Construction for the Man on Site (reference)

• Getting in on the Ground Floor (reference)

• In on the Ground Floor of the 20th Century Automation Revolution (reference)

• On the ground floor of heaven (reference)

• Programming the IBM As-400-I: The Ground Floor (reference)

  (more book examples)

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[Plan for the ground floor of a chemical laboratory in Berlin]. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Postal Telegraph Cable Co. on ground floor below German American Bank, possibly Detroit, Michigan. Credit: Library of Congress.

E.M. Bigsby Co. show rooms, ground floor, main reception room. Credit: Library of Congress.

Lawrence L.S. Mayers, 126 Bedford St., Stamford, Connecticut. Ground floor, Dolan. Credit: Library of Congress.

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This conversation took place in the dining gallery on the ground floor.

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Business

Open spaces on the ground floor of shopping malls are also often used for special promotions. (references)

For exporters of medical equipment and supplies this means an unprecedented opportunity to enter Kazakhstan’s healthcare sector from the ground floor. (references)

Economic History

Syria

Da'ad MOUSA: East Tijara, Building No. 57, ground floor, tel: 963-11-445-5479, fax: 963-11-442-9648. Citizen of the SAR. (references)

China

TDA funds feasibility studies, conducted by U.S. companies, to get the U.S. private sector in on the ground floor of projects that have the potential for generating significant exports of U.S. goods and services. (references)

Travel

France

In France the ground floor in buildings is identified as "RC" (Rez-de-Chaussee) and the next floor up is considered the first floor. (references)

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Expression using "ground floor": get in on the ground floor. Additional references.

Albanian

kat përdhes. (various references)

Arabic 

‏طابق أرضي (basement), ‏الطابق الأرضي, ‏الدور الأرضي. (various references)

Bulgarian 

приземен етаж, партер (first floor, parterre, pit, stalls). (various references)

Czech

přízemí (downstairs, parterre, stall). (various references)

Danish

stueetage (ground-floor), stue (living-room, sitting-room). (various references)

Dutch

begane grond (first floor, ground level). (various references)

Esperanto

unua etaĝo, ternivelo (first floor, ground level), beletaĝo. (various references)

Finnish

pohjakerros (basement, first floor, substratum). (various references)

French

rez-de-chaussée (ground-floor). (various references)

German

Parterre (first floor, first floorUS, parterre, pit, rear stalls), Erdgeschoß (first floor, ground-floor). (various references)

Greek 

ισόγειο (first floor). (various references)

Hebrew 

קומת קרקע (first floor). (various references)

Hungarian

földszint (downstairs, ground-floor, pit, street level). (various references)

Italian

pianterreno (first floor, ground-floor), pianoterra (first floor), fondare (base, base oneself, build, erect, establish, found, ground, set up). (various references)

Pig Latin

oundgray oorflay.(various references)

Portuguese

�ltimo (hindmost), rés-do-chão (ground-floor), inferior (bad, below, blanket, bottom, brutish, catchpenny, cheap, coarse, common, corny, currish, dependant, dependent, hereinafter, inelaborate, inferior, less, lesser, low, mean, menial, minor, nether, poor, subordinate, trashy, under, undermost, unequal, wishy-washy), andar t�rreo. (various references)

Romanian

parter (parterre, pit). (various references)

Russian 

цокольный этаж, нижний этаж, первый этаж (street floor). (various references)

Scottish

l� r (floor, the ground). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

prizemlje (first floor, groundfloor), parter (orchestra, parterre). (various references)

Spanish

planta baja (first floor). (various references)

Swedish

bottenvåning (ground-floor). (various references)

Thai

จ้างให้ทำงานระ�"ับต่ำหรือต่ำต้อย (let in on the ground floor). (various references)

Turkish

giriş katı, zemin kat (first floor). (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-4 letters: forlorn, fourgon, furlong, godroon, goldurn, odorful.

-5 letters: dolour, drongo, duolog, ground, oolong, unfold, unroof.