noun
Meaning 1
A cloth, normally of flannel, used for cleaning floors.
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
floorcloth
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noun
Meaning 2
Material used in place of carpeting for covering floors, such as linoleum or oilcloth.
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
History
Etymology
From floor + cloth.
Across languages
Translations
36 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Armenian: պոլի շոր (poli šor) — cloth for cleaning floors
- Bulgarian: подочистачка (podočistačka) — cloth for cleaning floors
- Catalan: baieta — cloth for cleaning floors
- Chechen: горгам (gorgam) — cloth for cleaning floors
- Chinese Mandarin: 地板布 (dìbǎn bù) — cloth for cleaning floors
- Dutch: dweil — cloth for cleaning floors
- Finnish: lattiarätti — cloth for cleaning floors
- Finnish: rätti — cloth for cleaning floors
- French: serpillière — cloth for cleaning floors
- French: serpillère — cloth for cleaning floors
- French: panosse — cloth for cleaning floors
- German: Bodentuch — cloth for cleaning floors
- German: Putzlappen — cloth for cleaning floors
- German: Feudel — cloth for cleaning floors
- German: Wischlappen — cloth for cleaning floors
- German: Wischtuch — cloth for cleaning floors
- Irish: ceirt urláir — cloth for cleaning floors
- Japanese: (床)雑巾 (zōkin) — cloth for cleaning floors
- Khakas: ӌурух (curux) — cloth for cleaning floors
- Khvarshi: горгом (gorgom) — cloth for cleaning floors
- Ladin: berdon da fonz — cloth for cleaning floors
- Portuguese: pano de chão — cloth for cleaning floors
- Russian: полова́я тря́пка (polovája trjápka) — cloth for cleaning floors
- Spanish: aljofifa — cloth for cleaning floors
- Spanish: bayeta — cloth for cleaning floors
- Spanish: coleto — cloth for cleaning floors
- Spanish: frazada de piso — cloth for cleaning floors
- Spanish: jerga — cloth for cleaning floors
- Spanish: paño rejilla — cloth for cleaning floors
- Spanish: rodilla — cloth for cleaning floors
- Spanish: trapero — cloth for cleaning floors
- Spanish: trapo de piso — cloth for cleaning floors
- Spanish: trapo rejilla — cloth for cleaning floors
- Swedish: skurtrasa — cloth for cleaning floors
- Tsez: ки́ли (kíli) — cloth for cleaning floors
- Welsh: clwt llawr — cloth for cleaning floors