1. The floor or story of a building next above the ground floor.
1865. Dickens, Mut. Fr., I. iv. This is the gentleman who has taken your first-floor.
2. The floor or story which is built on or just above the ground; a ground floor. Now only U.S.
1663. Gerbier, Counsel, 101. The first Floore of a building should not lye level with the ground.
1860. Worcester, First-floor, the basement of a building [U.S.].
3. colloq. The person who occupies the first floor.
1861. Mrs. Carlyle, Lett., III. 83. The sitting-room had become perfectly maddening with bagpipes under the windows, and piano-practice under the floor (a piano hired in by ‘the first floor’ yesterday)!
4. attrib., as first-floor-room, -window.
1840. Dickens, Old C. Shop, viii. Made known to the neighbourhood by an oval board over the front first-floor window, whereon appeared, in circumambient flourishes, the words ‘Ladies’ Seminary.’
1877. Black, Green Past., iii. (1878), 19. In the first-floor room of a small house in Piccadilly a young man of six-and-twenty or so was busily writing letters.
