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Success is like a high-rise building I'm on the first floor. There are a lot of people in the basement or the parking lot but I was lucky enough to have made it to the first floor and I'm looking to make it to the penthouse.
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Meaning of "first floor" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF FIRST FLOOR

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF FIRST FLOOR

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First floor is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES FIRST FLOOR MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Storey

A storey or story is any level part of a building that could be used by people. The plurals are storeys and stories, respectively. The terms floor, level, or deck can also be used in this sense; except that one may use "ground floor" and "ground level" for the floor closer to what is considered the ground or street level. The words "storey" and "floor" also generally exclude levels of the building that have no roof, even if they are used by people—such as the terrace on the top roof of many buildings. Houses commonly have only one or two floors. Buildings are often classified as low-rise, mid-rise, and high-rise according to how many levels they contain; but these categories are not well-defined. The tallest skyscraper in the world, Burj Khalifa, has 163 floors. As of 2013, the tallest planned skyscraper, Sky City, is planned to have 202 floors. The height of each storey is based on the ceiling height of the rooms plus the thickness of the floors between each pain. Generally this is around 10 feet or 3 metres total, however it varies widely from just under this figure to well over it.

Definition of first floor in the English dictionary

The definition of first floor in the dictionary is the floor or storey of a building immediately above the ground floor US and Canadian term: second floor.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE FIRST FLOOR

first degree murder
first derivative
first edition
First Empire
First Epistle of John
first estate
first ever
first family
First Fleet
First Fleeter
first form
first four ships
first fruits
first grade
first hand
first harmonic
First International
first lady
first language
first lieutenant

WORDS THAT END LIKE FIRST FLOOR

dance floor
dirt floor
factory floor
first-floor
floor
forest floor
get in on the ground floor
ground floor
ground-floor
pelvic floor
quarry-tiled floor
sea floor
second floor
shop floor
subfloor
take the floor
third floor
to end up on the cutting room floor
top floor
trading floor
underfloor

Synonyms and antonyms of first floor in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «first floor» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF FIRST FLOOR

Find out the translation of first floor to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of first floor from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «first floor» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

一楼
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

primera planta
570 millions of speakers

English

first floor
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

पहली मंजिल
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

الطابق الأول
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

первый этаж
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

primeiro andar
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

প্রথম তলা
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

premier étage
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

tingkat satu
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

erster Stock
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

>2階
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

1층
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

lantai siji
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

tầng đầu tiên
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

முதல் மாடி
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

पहिला मजला
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

birinci kat
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

primo piano
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

pierwsze piętro
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

перший поверх
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

primul etaj
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

πρώτο όροφο
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

eerste vloer
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

första våningen
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

første etasje
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of first floor

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «FIRST FLOOR»

The term «first floor» is very widely used and occupies the 16.696 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about first floor

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QUOTES WITH «FIRST FLOOR»

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Justin Guarini
Success is like a high-rise building I'm on the first floor. There are a lot of people in the basement or the parking lot but I was lucky enough to have made it to the first floor and I'm looking to make it to the penthouse.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «FIRST FLOOR»

Discover the use of first floor in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to first floor and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Murder on the Thirty-First Floor
Author of the Martin Beck series.
Per Wahlöö, 2011
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The first floor: a farce. In two acts. As it is now acting ...
a farce. In two acts. As it is now acting at the Theatre Royal in Drury Lane James Cobb. } FIRST FLOOR — A FARCE. IN TWO ACTS, . ..
James Cobb, 1787
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The First Floor; a Farce: In Two Acts. As it is Now Acting ...
In Two Acts. As it is Now Acting at the Theatres-Royal in London and Dublin James Cobb. Nothing so pleasant as to be perfectly at one's ease — that's my opinion-^ j . . " . • .» ..: Monf. So I perceive, Sir. — [Re-enter Frank, Whimsey pulls off his ...
James Cobb, 1787
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Fire Officer's Handbook of Tactics
Also position a member at the top of the cellar stairs to warn the crews in the cellar of any fire lighting up in the stairway or on the first floor. You should begin to cut large ventilation holes, 4×4 ft minimum, as soon as a serious cellar fire is ...
John Norman, 2005
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Command and Control of Fires and Emergencies
The first floor may be labeled the ground floor, and the second floor labeled the first, with all the rest following suit. The lowest level of an aboveground multistory building is the first floor, not the ground floor. Mislabeling can also be at fault in ...
Vincent Dunn, 1999
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Narrative Inquiry in a Multicultural Lan
The first floor housed the primary classes, principal's office and main office, library, and gym. The second floor had the upper elementary classes, vice principals' offices, and the government settlement worker's office (to assist newly immigrated ...
JoAnn Phillion, 2006
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Architectural Acoustics: Principles and Practice
The first floor of the 1140 Boylston Street building, directly above the percussion studios, houses two of the college's main recital halls. In addition, the college's goal for this project was to achieve a very high degree of sound isolation between ...
William J. Cavanaugh, Gregory C. Tocci, Joseph A. Wilkes, 2010
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Building Regulations Explained: 2000 Revision
There is no direct link between these departments and the laboratories at first floor level. You argue that the operation of the laboratories requires that they should be accessed from the existing building and should have no direct links to the ...
John Stephenson, 2001
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Optoelectronics for Data Communication
(The first floor is the valence band, the second floor the conduction band and the party-goers are electrons.) First, imagine that the first floor is about half full of people (with the second floor empty). Potato chips are brought to the left side of the ...
Ronald C. Lasky, Ulf L. Osterberg, Daniel P. Stigliani, 1995
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Fire Safety Risk Assessment
I. CO CO CD r-«- 03 CL CD O CO Four storey, ground and up to three upper floors ^. Three-storey (small basement, ground and first floor) In theatres, cinemas, concert halls, etc. public areas should normally be provided with a protected ...
Odpm, 2006

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «FIRST FLOOR»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term first floor is used in the context of the following news items.
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Well presented first floor flat in Shoreham
Jacobs Steel are delighted to offer for sale this extremely well presented two double bedroom first floor flat situated in a popular Shoreham ... «Shoreham Herald, Jul 15»
2
Stanford Cancer Center South Bay opens to first patients
... unit and specialized radiology rooms are on the second floor; and medical imaging services, as well as a café, are on the first floor. «Stanford Medical Center Report, Jul 15»
3
Oswego Library addition nearing completion
The entire first floor and second floors are closed in except for the northwest corner of the second floor, where glass will be installed to provide ... «Kendall County Now, Jul 15»
4
Belleville board approves proposal to revamp old hospital
The first floor would be comprised of retail space, including a card-access Laundromat open only to residents, plus a convenience store. «NorthJersey.com, Jul 15»
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Spacious three bed first floor apartment
This spacious three double bedroom first floor apartment forms part of a grand building, which is believed to have Georgian origins. «Shoreham Herald, Jul 15»
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Anytime Fitness to open gym at North End in Park East
Mandel Group Inc. will fill a long-vacant retail space in the first floor of its North End apartment buildings in the Park East with an Anytime ... «Milwaukee Business Journal, Jul 15»
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Work resumes at Ypsilanti's Thompson Block following fatal floor …
Apartments are being marketed for the top two floors, while the first floor and basement will be used as a retail and office space. The Barracks ... «MLive.com, Jul 15»
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Hole in floor halting fire investigation in Winston-Salem
There is some damage to the first floor, but the majority of the damage is on the second floor and in the attic. Firefighters can't say decisively if ... «myfox8.com, Jul 15»
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Are foreclosure sales legit?
Jose Torralva, the county's interim director of facilities management, made the call to have the auctions held on the first floor. Conducting the ... «San Antonio Express-News, Jul 15»
10
Spacious first floor apartment
Jacks & Jones are delighted to offer for sale this spacious and well presented double bedroom first floor apartment with double glazing and ... «Worthing Herald, Jul 15»

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