[noun] [C] - the surface of a room which you can see when you look above youA light was hanging from the middle of the ceiling.(figurative) There's a low cloud ceiling (= The clouds are low) today.(figurative) They have imposed/set a ceiling (= upper limit) on pay rises.
CEILING
Meaning of CEILING in English
Cambridge English vocab. Кембриджский английский словарь. 2012