MEANING
A drawing showing the arrangement of rooms and spaces as viewed from above at a particular floor level.
Use it for
navigation; hidden routes; design decisionsMake connections between rooms readable before describing movement through them.
Words that belong together
- ground-floor plan
- open floor plan
- study the floor plan
On the page
The floor plan showed a door that no longer existed.
He traced the route from the kitchen to the back stairs on the floor plan.
Their new floor plan placed the bedrooms away from the road.
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Word forms
- Base
- floor plan
Usage notes
Primary category: architecture. Shows layout rather than an exterior appearance; also used for the layout itself. Count compound noun: floor plans; spelling floorplan, plural floorplans.
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