Definition of Ground floor

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

Exact synonyms: First Floor, Ground Level
Generic synonyms: Floor, Level, Storey, Story

2. Noun. Becoming part of a venture at the beginning (regarded as position of advantage). "He got in on the ground floor"
Generic synonyms: Beginning

Definition of Ground floor

1. Noun. The floor of a building closest to ground level; first floor (American English) ¹

2. Noun. (informal) The initial stage of a project ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Ground Floor

ground bundles
ground cable
ground cedar
ground cherry
ground clearance
ground clearances
ground cloth
ground control
ground cover
ground crew
ground effect
ground effect machine
ground failure
ground fir
ground fire
ground floor (current term)
ground forces
ground game
ground games
ground itch
ground itch anaemia
ground ivy
ground lamella
ground laurel
ground level
ground loop
ground mobile force
ground mobile forces

Literary usage of Ground floor

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Library Journal by American Library Association, Library Association, Richard Rogers Bowker, Charles Ammi Cutter (1907)
"Within the triangular enclosure thus made is the great central feature of the domed building, providing for the delivery room on the "ground floor" and the ..."

2. Lives of the Founders of the British Museum: With Notices of Its Chief by Edward Edwards (1870)
"5, and 6), giving an area of about two thousand nine hundred and fifty feet on the ground floor, and a large piece of ground, one hundred feet by ..."

3. Autobiography, Reminiscences and Letters of John Trumbull, from 1756 to 1841 by John Trumbull (1841)
"The grand central dome and room saved—Project for placing a statue of Washington on the ground floor—Leads to the notion of a grand crypt or sepulchral ..."

4. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"The ground floor, evidently for reasons of defence, had no door, entrance being made by means of movable ladders. The houses were owned and built by the ..."

5. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1910)
"... low-built two-storied cottages, of two or three rooms on the ground-floor, lighted by a larger and a snail« window ..."

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