Meaning & use
top floor spaces
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Meanings
nounplural
The rooms or areas on the highest floor of a building, considered as usable space.
Grammar: Usually plural and often used with 'the'; a single one is 'a top floor space'.
Patterns
- the top floor spaces of a building
- rent out top floor spaces
- convert top floor spaces into offices
The architects turned the top floor spaces into a bright open-plan office.
Top floor spaces in this block often have better views and more light.
We are looking for tenants to fill the top floor spaces by the spring.
nounplural
Areas on the highest level of a vehicle or structure, such as a bus or parking garage.
Grammar: Plural countable; the singular form is 'top floor space'.
Patterns
- top floor spaces on a bus
- top floor spaces in a parking garage
The top floor spaces on the double-decker bus fill up first in summer.
Parking is cheaper in the top floor spaces of the garage.
Word forms
| singular | top floor space |
|---|
Common combinations
- available top floor spaces
- The agent listed the available top floor spaces on the website.
- open up top floor spaces
- They opened up the top floor spaces to create a staff lounge.
- top floor spaces with a view
- These top floor spaces with a view cost more to rent.
- convert top floor spaces
- The council plans to convert top floor spaces into flats.
Synonyms and how they differ
- upper-floor areas
- A more general phrase that can refer to any floor above the ground level, not only the highest one.
- penthouse space
- Suggests luxury living space at the top of a building, whereas 'top floor spaces' is neutral and can describe offices or storage.
Opposites
Word family
- top floor noun
- The highest floor of a building.
- floor space noun
- The area of floor available in a room or building.
Commonly confused: top floor spaces or top-floor flat?
top floor spaces vs top-floor flat
A flat is a whole home, while 'top floor spaces' simply describes areas on the top level, which may not be separate homes.
Practice
Which sentence uses the phrase correctly?
Choose one answer.
'Spaces' is plural, so it takes 'are'; option 2 matches the plural subject with the plural verb. Option 1 uses a singular verb with a plural noun, option 3 mixes a singular noun with a plural verb, and option 4 has the wrong word order.
Make it your own
Write a sentence using “top floor spaces”, then check it and compare it with the examples above.