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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The fire itself was contained to one apartment on the second floor, but smoke poured into other areas, Spitzig said.
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Paula Wethington, CBS News, 8 June 2026
The expansive show — spread out across 3,000 square feet in the museum’s second floor gallery — will feature more than 25 marine creatures, all made entirely from waste collected along the coast.
—Michael James Rocha, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 June 2026
Its muscular stone-and-concrete base seems to sprout from the landscape, while the translucent, cantilevered second floor appears to tiptoe across it atop slender steel columns.
—Fred Albert, Forbes.com, 6 June 2026
About an hour after the ticket closed that year for the Democratic Party primaries, a fire destroyed the second floor of her newspaper, the Citizen.
—Arkansas Online, 6 June 2026
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Paula Wethington, CBS News, 8 June 2026
The expansive show — spread out across 3,000 square feet in the museum’s second floor gallery — will feature more than 25 marine creatures, all made entirely from waste collected along the coast.
—Michael James Rocha, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 June 2026
Its muscular stone-and-concrete base seems to sprout from the landscape, while the translucent, cantilevered second floor appears to tiptoe across it atop slender steel columns.
—Fred Albert, Forbes.com, 6 June 2026
About an hour after the ticket closed that year for the Democratic Party primaries, a fire destroyed the second floor of her newspaper, the Citizen.
—Arkansas Online, 6 June 2026
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“Second floor.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/second%20floor. Accessed 15 Jun. 2026.
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