floor plan

noun

1
: a scale diagram of a room or suite of rooms viewed from above and used especially for planning effective use and arrangement of furnishings
looking at the builder's floor plan
2
: the layout of a room or a suite of rooms
On the ground floor, design architects removed some walls to create an open floor plan with lots of light …Colleen O'Connor
a house with an unusual floor plan

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The building’s floor plan and rooms are also on a curve, with rooms arching to face either the swimming pool or Epic Universe. Dewayne Bevil, Orlando Sentinel, 16 Jan. 2025 Why must so many others rebuild their daily steps from scratch while our basic floor plan remains the same? Bill Plaschke, Los Angeles Times, 16 Jan. 2025 For property details, floor plans and photos of the home (some include virtual staging), visit www.evanrealtor.com and enter the address into the search engine. Karen A. Avitabile, Hartford Courant, 12 Jan. 2025 One of the former industrial building’s two grand lofts, Unit #7W, previously sold for $2.3 million in 2017, and now the three-bedroom abode is back on the market with many indicators of its past, like exposed support beams and exposed red-brick walls that span its open floor plan. Demetrius Simms, Robb Report, 5 Dec. 2024 See all Example Sentences for floor plan 

Word History

First Known Use

1831, in the meaning defined at sense 1

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The first known use of floor plan was in 1831

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“Floor plan.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/floor%20plan. Accessed 20 Jan. 2025.

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