ceiling

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English

Etymology

From Middle English ceiling, from ceil (“to cover”) + -ing.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈsiːlɪŋ/

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  Rhymes: -iːlɪŋ

Noun

ceiling (plural ceilings)

1. The surface that bounds the upper limit of a room.

   the dining room had an ornate ceiling

2. The upper limit of an object or action.

   price ceilings

3. (aviation) The highest altitude at which an aircraft may fly.
4. (mathematics) The smallest integer greater than or equal to a given number.

   the ceiling of 4.5 is 5, the ceiling of -4.5 is -4

Derived terms

Terms derived from ceiling

cathedral ceiling ceilingward

dropped ceiling flight ceiling

glass ceiling hit the ceiling

Antonyms

• floor

Translations

upper limit of room

• Arabic: سقف (ar) (saqf) m

  Egyptian Arabic: سقف (saqf)

• Armenian: առաստաղ (hy) (aṙastaġ) , (rare) առիք (hy) (aṙikʿ) 

  Old Armenian: ձեղուն (jełun)

• Belarusian: столь (be) (stol’) m 
• Bulgarian: таван (bg) (taván) m 
• Burmese: please add this translation if you can
• Catalan: sostre (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 天花板 (cmn) (tiānhuābǎn), 天棚 (cmn) (tiānpéng)

• Cornish: nen (kw)
• Czech: strop (cs) m
• Danish: loft (da) n
• Dutch: plafond (nl) n, zoldering (nl) f
• Esperanto: plafono (eo)
• Estonian: please add this translation if you can
• Faroese: loft (fo) n
• Finnish: katto (fi), sisäkatto (fi)
• French: plafond (fr) m
• Galician: teito (gl) m
• Georgian: ჭერი (ka) (čeri) 
• German: Decke (de) f
• Greek: οροφή (el) (orofí) f , ταβάνι (el) (taváni) n 
• Gujarati: please add this translation if you can
• Hebrew: please add this translation if you can
• Hindi: छत (hi) (chat) f
• Hungarian: mennyezet (hu)
• Icelandic: loft (is) n
• Ido: plafono (io)
• Indonesian: langit-langit
• Interlingue: plafon (ie)
• Italian: soffitto (it) m
• Japanese: 天井 (ja) (てんじょう, tenjō)
• Khmer: ពិតាន (km) (pidaan)
• Korean: 천장 (ko) (cheonjang), (天障 (ko))

• Lao: please add this translation if you can
• Latgalian: grīsti, viersejuo greida
• Latvian: griesti (lv)
• Lithuanian: lubos (lt)
• Macedonian: таван (mk) (távan) m
• Malay: siling (ms)
• Malayalam: please add this translation if you can
• Maltese: please add this translation if you can
• Marathi: please add this translation if you can
• Norwegian: tak (no) n
• Novial: please add this translation if you can
• Occitan: please add this translation if you can
• Oriya: please add this translation if you can
• Pashto: please add this translation if you can
• Persian: سقف (fa) (saqf)
• Polish: sufit (pl) m
• Portuguese: teto (pt) m
• Romanian: plafon (ro) n, tavan (ro) n
• Russian: потолок (ru) (potolók) m 
• Scottish Gaelic: mullach (gd) m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: плафон (sh) m, строп (sh) m

  Roman: plafon (sh) m, strop (sh) m

• Slovak: strop (sk) m
• Slovene: strop (sl) m
• Spanish: techo (es) m
• Swahili: dari (sw)
• Swedish: tak (sv)
• Telugu: please add this translation if you can
• Thai: เพดาน (th) (paydaan)
• Turkish: tavan (tr)
• Ukrainian: стеля (uk) (stélja) f 
• Urdu: چھت (ur) (chat) f
• Vietnamese: trần (vi), trần nhà (vi)
• Volapük: please add this translation if you can
• Welsh: nenfwd (cy) m, nenfydau (cy) pl

altitude

• Bulgarian: таван (bg) m (tavan)
• Finnish: lakikorkeus (fi)
• Greek: υψόμετρο (el) (ipsómetro) n 

• Khmer: ពិតាន (km) (pidaan)
• Portuguese: teto (pt) m
• Russian: потолок (ru) (potolók) m 

smallest integer

• Czech: horní celá část (cs) f
• French: partie entière par excès (fr) f
• Japanese: 天井関数 (ja) (tenjō kansū)

• Norwegian: tak (no) n
• Polish: sufit (pl) m

Verb

ceiling

1. Present participle of ceil.