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Definition of First floor
1. Noun. The floor of a building that is at or nearest to the level of the ground around the building.
Definition of First floor
1. Noun. (North America) The floor of a building at the level of the street or surrounding ground; the ground floor ¹
2. Noun. (chiefly British) The floor of a building one above the ground floor ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of First Floor
Literary usage of First floor
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. 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)
"C. The Chapel of Nicholas F.—While the two above-named chapels are situated on
the first floor of the palace, which bounds the Cortile di San Dámaso, ..."
2. National Education in Europe: Being an Account of the Organization by Henry Barnard (1854)
"Plan of Bowdoin Grammar School-house, First and Second Floor Third Floor, t Plan
of Quincy Grammar School-house,.. Illustration, first floor . ..."
3. The Bookman (1897)
"... which a few stray houses produced at dusk the impression of a jaw from which
most of the teeth have fallen out. " I leased one half of the first floor, ..."
4. The Tenement House Problem: Including the Report of the New York State by New York (State). Tenement House Commission, Lawrence Veiller, Robert Weeks De Forest (1903)
"The Building Code, adopted in that year, provided that wherever there was a store
on the first floor in a new tenement house or any tenement house ..."
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