storey
noun
storey
American
[stawr-ee, stohr-ee]
/ ˈstɔr i, ˈstoʊr i /
noun
Chiefly British.
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storeys
plural
storey
1
British
/ ˈstɔːrɪ /
noun
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a floor or level of a building
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a set of rooms on one level
Storey
2
British
/ ˈstɔːrɪ /
noun
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of storey
C14: from Anglo-Latin historia, picture, from Latin: narrative, probably arising from the pictures on medieval windows
Example Sentences
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It includes plans for 33 apartments within three-and-a-half storey buildings and the demolition of the existing building to the east of Rodger's Quay.
From BBC ● Jun. 1, 2026
Images, widely circulated online, showed huge snow piles reaching up to the second storey of buildings and people digging their way through roads as snow blanketed cars on either side.
From Barron's ● Jan. 29, 2026
Last May, the firm was given planning permission from Manchester City Council to turn the building into a 37 storey, 595 bed block of student flats.
From BBC ● Jun. 24, 2025
The vehicle involved was believed to have fallen from the third storey.
From BBC ● Jun. 16, 2025
It had only one storey, but it had the same narrow windows, and it was built of ugly pale bricks, badly laid.
From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien
Storey started her career as a swimmer and competed at four Games before switching to cycling, winning a total of 30 Paralympic medals across nine Games, including four golds at London 2012.
From BBC ● Jul. 8, 2026
Meanwhile, tiny Curacao has only one player born in the Caribbean island nation, according to David Storey, honorary professor of human geography at the University of Worcester.
From Barron's ● Jun. 18, 2026
Storey said Gedel was then seen on the landing outside Watkins' cell, "in all likelihood waiting for a moment when the prison officers on the landing were out of sight".
From BBC ● May 7, 2026
Storey offers a second positive argument for pharma and biotech, noting they could benefit from deregulation and an improved environment for initial public offerings External link and mergers and acquisitions.
From Barron's ● May 6, 2026
Storey might well have given up entirely, except that all around him he saw fellow newspapermen scrambling to rent space and find type and paper.
From "The Great Fire" by Jim Murphy
"The flames were higher than full-size forest pine trees, so five or six storeys high, and it was clear this was a fire that was out of control at that point."
From BBC ● Jul. 25, 2026
Among the first remnants of the building to be dismantled is a 'floating' chimney stack still attached to the adjoining block, several storeys above ground.
From BBC ● Mar. 13, 2026
Garganera described the height from which the trash fell as "alarming", estimating the top of the pile had stood 20 storeys above the area struck.
From Barron's ● Jan. 10, 2026
About 50 sanitation workers were buried when refuse toppled onto them Thursday from what a city councillor estimated was a height of 20 storeys at the Binaliw Landfill, a privately operated facility in Cebu City.
From Barron's ● Jan. 10, 2026
It rose three storeys with a front entranceway that stretched out the front as a long corridor.
From "The Marrow Thieves" by Cherie Dimaline
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