The ground floor is the storey of a building level with the street. The one you walk into.
Britain and America count differently and it causes real confusion, since the British ground floor is the American first floor, so the British first floor is one flight up and the American first floor is not. Lifts label it G or 0 in Britain. Getting in on the ground floor means joining a venture at the very start, which is a compliment about timing rather than about stairs.
1nounground floorThe storey of a building at street level.
“The flat is on the ground floor with its own door.”
Practised in A Man Called Ove
First appears in chapter 9 of A Man Called Ove.
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