Theground floor of a building is the floor that is level or almost level with the ground outside.
[British]
She showed him around the ground floor of the empty house.
Jenny now lives in a terraced ground floor flat.
regional note: in AM, use first floor floor
ground floor in British English
noun
1.
the floor of a building level or almost level with the ground
2. get in on the ground floor
ground-floor in British English
(ˌɡraʊndˈflɔː)
adjective
located on the ground floor of a building
Jenny now lives in a terraced ground-floor flat.
ground floor in American English
that floor of a building which is approximately level with the ground; first floor
Idioms:
in on the ground floor
Examples of 'ground floor' in a sentence
ground floor
A spokesman for the London fire brigade said that part of a flat on the ground floor was alight.
Times, Sunday Times (2017)
The ground floor houses a study, dining room and drawing room, which opens on to another terrace and the garden.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
We had the restaurant on the ground floor and the building became available upstairs.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
Apparently there are two bearded men who potentially live in the ground floor flat.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
On the ground floor of the house there was another flat and our front door.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
This is why churches are built on ground floors now.
Christianity Today (2000)
And the people who are in at the ground floor now are going to be billionaires.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
She gave birth in a communal lavatory on the ground floor of the building where she rented a flat.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
The disappearance of the whiff of chlorine that used to fill the ground floors of some houses may be another.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
The ground floor has two guest suites and forms a solid platform for the main section of the house to sit upon.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
Visitors might also be intrigued by works of contemporary art in the hotel 's refurbished ground floor.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
They then ran to the main house and entered from the ground floor, checking the rooms.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
They owned the ground floor flat; we rented the first floor.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
The woman was found dead in a ground floor flat close to the home of Wright.
The Sun (2009)
With the ground floor now housing a new recording studio, both residents can work from home.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
The ground floor is now streamlined and modern, with a white kitchen and a family room.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
QI am buying a raised ground floor flat.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
A few years ago the electricity went on the ground floor of our house.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
Meanwhile a car crashed and left a huge hole in her wall at the ground floor flat in Birmingham.
The Sun (2013)
Firefighters in the capital said that they had to rescue dozens of people trapped in cars on flooded streets and on ground floors of buildings.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
The blast also caused a gas meter to explode, which set the entire ground floor of the house ablaze.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
The ground floor has now been opened up into a bar, with a raised dining room at the rear.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
It has four bedrooms, an almost entirely open-plan ground floor and an underground garage.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
Minutes earlier 11-year-olds using the hotel 's ground floor while their secondary school is refurbished finished lessons.
The Sun (2008)
It has views out over the River Tweed and is on the ground floor of the building.
The Sun (2012)
After the main ceremony, guests will head indoors where they will eat a wedding dinner in the ground floor of the hotel 's palatial rooms.
The Sun (2014)
The bathrooms in the two ground-floor bedrooms are ingeniously contrived.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
Our ground-floor apartment had two bedrooms linked with a corridor and a bathroom.
The Sun (2008)
Over the window of the ground-floor flat is a large metal grille.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
Just beside me a ground-floor window opened and a young woman looked out.
Ben Nimmo IN FORKBEARD'S WAKE: Coasting Round Scandinavia (2003)
His ground-floor windows are obscured with opaque glass and his back garden sacrificed for a larger kitchen.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
And cops went round telling residents to keep their doors and ground-floor windows closed.
The Sun (2010)
The walls of the ground-floor sitting room are no less extravagant in their decoration.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
The roof terrace and the smart ground-floor sitting room would suit households that like to entertain.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
Others escaped through the ground-floor window.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
A man was also seriously injured and was seen leaping out of a ground-floor window.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
Generally, the ground-floor windows are small and the house has little connection to its rear garden.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
The roof terrace was on top of the ground-floor flat 's kitchen.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
The ground-floor windows are carefully placed so they look obliquely at the neighbours' back gardens or between the windows of the opposite homes.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
I want to buy a nearby ground-floor apartment with a buy-to-let mortgage to rent out.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
A window to the ground-floor villa was also found open, the lawyers added.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
I live in a ground-floor flat in south London with my girlfriend.
The Sun (2011)
If this were to go ahead, the second storey would significantly block natural light into my ground-floor flat and potentially reduce the value of my property.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
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In other languages
ground floor
British English: ground floor /ɡraʊnd flɔː/ NOUN
The ground floor of a building is the floor that is level or almost level with the ground outside.
She showed him around the ground floor of the empty house.
American English: first floor
Arabic: الدَوْر الأَرْضِي
Brazilian Portuguese: andar térreo
Chinese: 第一层
Croatian: prizemlje
Czech: přízemí
Danish: stueetage
Dutch: benedenverdieping
European Spanish: planta baja
Finnish: ensimmäinen kerros basement = pohjakerros; first floor = toinen kerros