: having a specified type of floor or flooring
a marble floored entryway
… women shelling peas in linoleum-floored kitchens …W. P. Kinsella

Examples of floored in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Even better are the Tatami Deluxe Rooms, which have traditional Japanese floored beds, sofa beds, and separate tubs and showers. Lydia Price, Travel + Leisure, 9 Mar. 2024 Get a good bit of exercise without feeling floored. Brad Japhe, Travel + Leisure, 28 Dec. 2023 The front seats are divided by a wide, deep console bin, and the flat-floored cabin easily accommodates four six-foot adults through wide-opening doors. John Voelcker, Car and Driver, 28 Oct. 2022 There’s a creaky-floored atmosphere, a good-haunted New Englandy feel to the place. BostonGlobe.com, 30 July 2021 The two-floored dining area will have plastic panels to separate diners. Stephen Wade, Chron, 20 June 2021 Early this year, children crossing the southwestern border in record numbers were crammed into Customs and Border Protection’s cold-floored, jail-like detention facilities. New York Times, 18 May 2021

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Word History

First Known Use

1758, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of floored was in 1758

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“Floored.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/floored. Accessed 19 Apr. 2024.

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