second floor
noun
1
US
: the floor just above the lowest floor
2
British
: the floor that is two floors above the ground floor level
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Floor 2: The health clinic Boston Health Care for the Homeless will run a clinic out of the second floor, opening around summer 2026.
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Steph Solis, Axios, 19 Feb. 2025
Firefighters arrived about 3:15 p.m. to find the single-family house in the 3500 block of Redwing Court fully engulfed and someone trapped on the second floor, a Naperville Fire Department news release said.
—Naperville Sun, Chicago Tribune, 19 Feb. 2025
The blaze broke out just before 8:05 a.m. on the second floor of the two-story house on 67th St. near 12th Ave.
—Elizabeth Keogh, New York Daily News, 18 Feb. 2025
The apartment is on the second floor of the five-story building.
—Michael Kaminer, New York Times, 14 Feb. 2025
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Steph Solis, Axios, 19 Feb. 2025
Firefighters arrived about 3:15 p.m. to find the single-family house in the 3500 block of Redwing Court fully engulfed and someone trapped on the second floor, a Naperville Fire Department news release said.
—Naperville Sun, Chicago Tribune, 19 Feb. 2025
The blaze broke out just before 8:05 a.m. on the second floor of the two-story house on 67th St. near 12th Ave.
—Elizabeth Keogh, New York Daily News, 18 Feb. 2025
The apartment is on the second floor of the five-story building.
—Michael Kaminer, New York Times, 14 Feb. 2025
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“Second floor.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/second%20floor. Accessed 2 Mar. 2025.
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