FIRST FLOOR

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does first floor mean? 

• FIRST FLOOR (noun)
  The noun FIRST FLOOR has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: FIRST FLOOR used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FIRST FLOOR (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

first floor; ground floor; ground level

Hypernyms ("first floor" is a kind of...):

floor; level; storey; story (a structure consisting of a room or set of rooms at a single position along a vertical scale)

 Context examples 

We had ascended the kitchen stair and entered the suite of rooms upon the first floor.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Ere he was at the first floor, however, he threw up his arms and stopped.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

There are three windows looking on the court on the first floor; none below; the windows are always shut but they’re clean.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

He turned the two best rooms of the first floor into a sitting-room and bedroom for himself.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Five minutes later a lamp was lit in a room upon the first floor.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Convinced that something was amiss with him, she rushed down the steps—for the house was none other than the opium den in which you found me to-night—and running through the front room she attempted to ascend the stairs which led to the first floor.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Arrived at this house in Windsor Terrace (which I noticed was shabby like himself, but also, like himself, made all the show it could), he presented me to Mrs. Micawber, a thin and faded lady, not at all young, who was sitting in the parlour (the first floor was altogether unfurnished, and the blinds were kept down to delude the neighbours), with a baby at her breast.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

A stone-flagged passage, with the kitchens branching away from it, led by a wooden staircase directly to the first floor of the house.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The wood had been soaked in oil, for in an instant it was ablaze, and a long, hissing, yellow flame licked over the heads of the defenders, and drove them further up to the first floor of the keep.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)