noun

1. the inside bottom surface of a room, hall, etc., on which one stands or walks
2. the bottom surface of anything the ocean floor
3. the platform of a bridge, pier, etc.
4. a level or story in a building an office on the sixth floor
5. 1. the part of a legislative chamber, stock exchange, etc. occupied by the members and not including the gallery or platform
   2. such members as a group
6. ☆ permission or the right to speak in an assembly to ask a chairman for the floor
7. a lower limit set on anything, as by official regulation

Etymology: ME flor < OE, akin to Ger flur, a plain < IE base *plā-, broad, flat > plain

transitive verb

1. to cover or furnish with a floor
2. to knock down
3. Informal
   1. to be the victor over; defeat
   2. to flabbergast; astound
4. Informal to press down to the floor: often in the phrase floor it, to depress the accelerator of a vehicle to the floorboard in order to go as fast as possible