English [ edit ] Wikipedia
Etymology [ edit ] From Middle English ceiling ceil “ to cover ” ) + -ing
Pronunciation [ edit ] ceiling (plural ceilings
The surface that bounds the upper limit of a room.
1963 , Margery Allingham , chapter 1, in The China Governess [1]
The huge square box, parquet-floored and high-ceiling ed, had been arranged to display a suite of bedroom furniture designed and made in the halcyon days of the last quarter of the nineteenth century, […].
the dining room had an ornate ceiling
The upper limit of an object or action.
price ceilings
( aviation ) The highest altitude at which an aircraft may fly.( 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
( nautical ) The inner planking of a vessel.
Derived terms [ edit ]
Terms derived from ceiling
Antonyms [ edit ] Translations [ edit ]
upper limit of room
Afrikaans: plafon
Albanian: tavan (sq) m
Arabic: سَقْف m saqf )
Armenian: առաստաղ (hy) (aṙastał ), ( rare ) առիք (hy) (aṙikʿ )
Old Armenian: ձեղուն jełun )
Azeri: tavan (az)
Basque: sabai (eu)
Belarusian: столь m stolʹ )
Bengali: ছাদ (bn) (chad )
Bulgarian: тава́н (bg) m taván )
Burmese: မျက်နှာကြက် (my) (myakhnakrak )
Catalan: sostre (ca) m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 天花板 (zh) (tiānhuābǎn ), 天棚 (zh) (tiānpéng )
Chuvash: путалӑх putalăh )
Cornish: nen
Czech: strop (cs) m
Danish: loft (da) n
Dutch: plafond (nl) n zoldering f
Esperanto: plafono
Estonian: lagi (et)
Faroese: loft n
Finnish: katto (fi) , sisäkatto (fi)
French: plafond (fr) m
Galician: teito m
Georgian: ჭერი č̣eri )
German: Decke (de) f
Greek: οροφή (el) f orofí ), ταβάνι (el) n taváni )
Gujarati: please add this translation if you can
Hebrew: תִּקְרָה (he) f tik'ráh )
Hindi: छत (hi) f chat )
Hungarian: mennyezet (hu) , plafon (hu)
Icelandic: loft (is) n
Ido: plafono (io)
Indonesian: langit-langit
Interlingue: plafon
Irish: síleáil f
Italian: soffitto (it) m
Japanese: 天井 (ja) (てんじょう, tenjō )
Kazakh: төбе (kk) (töbe ), шек şek )
Khmer: ពិតាន (km) (pidaan )
Korean: 천장 (ko) (cheonjang ), (天障
Kyrgyz: потолок potolok ), шып (ky) (şıp )
Lao: ເພດານ (lo) (phē dān ), ພິດານ phi dān ), ປະຕຸລາ pa tu lā )
Latgalian: grīsti viersejuo greida
Latin: lacunar n
Latvian: griesti
Lithuanian: lubos f pl
Macedonian: таван m tavan )
Malay: siling
Malayalam: please add this translation if you can
Maltese: saqaf m
Marathi: छत chat )
Mongolian: тааз (mn) (taaz ), адар (mn) (adar )
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 strop (pl) m
Portuguese: teto (pt) m
Romanian: plafon (ro) n tavan (ro) n
Russian: потоло́к (ru) m potolók )
Scottish Gaelic: mullach m
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: плафон m строп m
Roman: plafon (sh) m strop (sh) m
Slovak: strop m
Slovene: strop (sl) m
Spanish: techo (es) m
Swahili: dari (sw)
Swedish: tak (sv)
Tajik: шифт šift ), сақф saqf )
Tatar: түшәм (tt) (tüşäm )
Telugu: లోకప్పు (te) (lōkappu )
Thai: เพดาน (th) (paydaan )
Turkish: tavan (tr)
Turkmen: potolok
Ukrainian: сте́ля f stélja )
Urdu: چھت f chat )
Uzbek: shift (uz) , potolok
Vietnamese: trần (vi) , trần nhà
Volapük: please add this translation if you can
Walloon: plafon (wa) m
Welsh: nenfwd m nenfydau pl
Yiddish: סופֿיט (yi) m sufit ), סטעליע f stelye )
upper limit of an object or action
inner planking of a vessel
ceiling
present participle of ceil
