ground floor

See also: groundfloor and ground-floor

English

Alternative forms

• ground-floor
• groundfloor (less common)

Noun

ground floor (plural ground floors)

1. The floor of a building closest to ground level.

   Synonym: (US) first floor

   • 2025 April 21, Devin Watkins, “Pope Francis has died on Easter Monday aged 88”, in Vatican News‎^[1]:

     The rite of the certification of death and placement in the coffin took place on Monday evening at 8:00 PM in the chapel on the ground floor of the late Pope's residence in the Casa Santa Marta.

2. (informal) The initial stage of a project.
   • 1981, Texas Monthly, volume 9, number 7, page 171:

     We are the exclusive marketing agents for three excellent condominium developments which can get you in on the ground floor of a truly fine winter/summer resort experience.

Translations

floor of a building closest to ground level

• Albanian: ^{(please verify)} kati perdhe
• Armenian: առաջին հարկ (aṙaǰin hark)
• Basque: beheko solairu
• Belarusian: ^{(please verify)} першы паверх (pjeršy pavjerx)
• Bengali: ^{(please verify)} একতলা (bn) (ektola)
• Catalan: planta baixa f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 一樓 / 一楼 (yīlóu), 底層 / 底层 (zh) (dǐcéng)

• Czech: přízemí (cs) n
• Danish: ^{(please verify)} stueetage c
• Dutch: begane grond (nl) m, benedenverdieping (nl) f, ^{(please verify)} gelijkvloerse verdieping f
• Esperanto: partero, teretaĝo
• Estonian: ^{(please verify)} esimene korrus
• Faroese: ^{(please verify)} gøtuhædd f, ^{(please verify)} niðasta hædd f
• Finnish: pohjakerros (fi), ensimmäinen kerros, katutaso (fi)
• French: rez-de-chaussée (fr) m
• Galician: soto (gl) m, baixo (gl) m
• Georgian: ნულოვანი სართული (nulovani sartuli), ქვედა სართული (kveda sartuli), პირველი სართული (ṗirveli sartuli), ცოკოლის სართული (coḳolis sartuli)
• German: Erdgeschoss (de) n
• Greek: ισόγειο (el) n (isógeio)
• Hebrew: קוֹמַת קַרְקַע f (komát karká')
• Hungarian: földszint (hu)
• Icelandic: jarðhæð (is) f, ^{(please verify)} fyrsta hæð f
• Indonesian: ^{(please verify)} lantai satu
• Italian: piano terra m, pianterreno (it) m
• Japanese: 一階 (ja) (いっかい, ikkai)
• Javanese: jogan lingga, lantai siji
• Khmer: ជាន់ផ្ទាល់ដី (cŏən phtŏəl dəy)
• Korean: 일층(一層) (ko) (ilcheung)
• Macedonian: при́земје n (prízemje)
• Malay: tingkat bawah
• Persian: هَمکَف (fa) (hamkaf)
• Polish: parter (pl) m
• Portuguese: térreo (pt) m, rés do chão (pt) m
• Romanian: parter (ro) n
• Russian: пе́рвый эта́ж m (pérvyj etáž), ^{(please verify)} пе́рвый эта́ж m (pérvyj etáž)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: при́зе̄мље n

  Roman: prízēmlje (sh) n

• Slovak: prízemie n
• Slovene: pritličje n
• Spanish: planta baja f, piso edáfico m, primer piso m
• Swahili: ghorofa ya chini
• Swedish: gatuplan (sv) n, markplan, förstavåning (sv) c, ^{(please verify)} bottenvåning (sv) c
• Tagalog: unang palapag
• Turkish: zemin kat
• Ukrainian: ^{(please verify)} перший поверх (peršyj poverx), ^{(please verify)} партер (parter)
• Vietnamese: ^{(please verify)} tầng trệt