floorboard

noun

floor·​board ˈflȯr-ˌbȯrd 

1

: a board in a floor

2

: the floor of an automobile

Examples of floorboard in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Edge and corner reach Robot vacuums have never been great at getting into corners and along edges, but some models feature extendable brushes or mops that can get into corners and along floorboards. —Bestreviews, Mercury News, 16 Mar. 2026

The history of the company is bound up in the very foundation, walls and floorboards of our first store in the city’s historic market. —Catherine Odom, Miami Herald, 11 Mar. 2026

Micron has come a long way since its humble founding nearly half a century ago in the basement of a Boise dental office, where sedative gas wafted through the floorboards and an early executive used a hair dryer to keep the company’s logo from smearing off its chips. —Angela Palermo, Idaho Statesman, 11 Mar. 2026

The Secret World of Arrietty, directed by Hiromasa Yonebayashi, adapts Mary Norton’s classic children’s novel The Borrowers, imagining a hidden world of tiny people living beneath the floorboards of human homes. —Patrick Brzeski, HollywoodReporter, 10 Mar. 2026

Word History

First Known Use

1881, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Rhymes for floorboard

• abhorred
• aboard
• accord
• adored
• afford
• award
• baseboard
• billboard
• blackboard
• boxboard
• breadboard
• broadsword