What is "ground-floor"

Usage examples of "ground-floor".

She was awoken in the middle of the night of August 2 and taken from the Temple to the Conciergerie, where she occupied a room about eleven feet by six feet off the main ground-floor corridor and directly next to the two gendarmes who were responsible for guarding her at all times.

They shuffled back along the ground-floor passageway to a door at the far end that stood open into a dimly-lit, low-ceilinged area filled with odours and warmth.

A sporty little fastback Ford Mustang, maroon in color, was parked in front of my ground-floor room, a tall, slim girl in jeans was knocking at the door.

Frau Kettleman had lived in the small ground-floor flat since the winter of 1947, when her husband had secured the job of building janitor.

Turk from Thessalonia with his family compelled me to suspend my walks, the ground-floor having been given to him.

The Wests even lent them their double bed in the ground-floor front room for the night, no doubt with a view to his watching through a spyhole in the door.

He was coming out of the little room on the ground-floor, which the Fortins used for an office, bedroom, and dining-room.

Three minutes later the headlights of the three Meres raked the ground-floor windows.

He reached his ground-floor apartment, checked the battered mailbox cluster, which always got wet when it rained--stupid, dumb damn place to put the damn mailboxes, anyway, mailmen getting lazier and lazier-and then went into the concrete hallway, which stank of fried foods, cat piss, and laundry soap in about equal proportions.

The library forms part of the Museum, which occupies a ground-floor wing of the castle.

From the apartments on the ground-floor might be heard the sound of music, with the whirl of the waltz and galop, while brilliant streams of light shone through the openings of the Venetian blinds.

Its situation was in Piccadilly, fronting the Green Park, and through the many windows of its ground-floor smoking-room the public were privileged to see at all hours of the day numbers of Stoics in various attitudes reading the daily papers or gazing out of the window.

Lowered steel gratings, bedecked with graffiti, covered the closed ground-floor storefronts, while unspooled razor wire ran along the edges of the rooftops, discouraging prowlers.

From vineyard, field, and lake vast droves of thick grey shadows trooped in to curtain the lower halls of the colossal edifice, as chamber after chamber disappeared from view and Night clothed the structure from the ground-floors upwards.

By midnight a team of plumbers had found the connecter wires running through the central heating system, and did an intercept from a ground-floor apartment, whose tenant was courteously urged to take a brief vacation and thus assist Her Majesty.