Definition of Ground plan

1. Noun. A floor plan for the ground level of a building.

Generic synonyms: Floor Plan

Lexicographical Neighbors of Ground Plan

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ground ivy
ground lamella
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ground mobile force
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ground noise
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ground pangolin
ground pangolins
ground pine
ground pink
ground plan (current term)
ground pounder
ground proximity warning system
ground proximity warning systems
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ground rent
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ground rose
ground rule
ground rules
ground shark
ground sharks
ground sloth
ground snake
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Literary usage of Ground plan

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

1. The Bibliographer's Manual of English Literature: Containing an Account of by William Thomas Lowndes, Henry George Bohn (1865)
"ground plan of the same, p. ix. ground plan showing the alterations, p. ix. ... A ground plan of do. p. 98. 9. The Duke of Norfolk, p. 161. 10. ..."

2. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1895)
"The last task set was to draw in a scale of about J inch to the foot a ground plan of the entrance hall of the building in which the class met, ..."

3. The American Journal of Education by Henry Barnard (1862)
"PLAN OF SCHOOL-HOUSE AT WASHINGTON VILLAGE IN COVENTRY, K. L The. following cut presents the ground plan of the new school-house in the village of ..."

4. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1908)
"The ground- plan of the latter was not commonly followed, the cruciform being preferred; and thus, when each arm of the cross was surmounted with its cupola ..."

5. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1910)
"... orders in ground-plan and charicter. They were usually long parallelograms unbroken by transepts. The nave very usually consisted of two equal bodies, ..."

6. Harper's Dictionary of Classical Literature and Antiquities by Harry Thurston Peck (1897)
"•a too ground plan of the Flavian Amphitheatre. middle of the city, in the valley between the Cae- lian, ..."

7. The Stones of Venice by John Ruskin (1906)
"Opposite is a rude ground-plan of the buildings round St. Mark's Place: and the following references will clearly explain their relative positions: A. St. ..."

8. The Gentleman's Magazine (1865)
"This is about 23ft. by 17ft., and is lighted 011 three sides by narrow Ground-plan and Plan of Upper Story, ..."

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