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
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The other two people killed were an elderly British man and his Greek wife who lived on the second storey of the three-storey building, Greece's state broadcaster ERT reported.
From Barron's ● Sep. 26, 2026
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
The single storey building consists of five separate interconnecting buildings which are located around a cloistered courtyard and communal and administration areas.
From BBC ● Mar. 5, 2025
All these relics gave to the third storey of Thornfield Hall the aspect of a home of the past: a shrine of memory.
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
Founders Michelle Lu and Kier Storey hope one day their software will control robots that can navigate and do useful tasks in the home and workplace.
From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026
"It can look about a second, or so, ahead into the future for 20,000 different kind of combinations of things that might happen," Storey explains.
From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026
Tech giant Nvidia has a system called Isaac Sim which works that way - Lu and Storey both worked on an early version of it.
From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026
Dame Sarah Storey, Great Britain's most-decorated Paralympian, has retired from international competition with immediate effect.
From BBC ● Jul. 8, 2026
Take the case of Wilbur Storey, the owner of the Chicago Times newspaper.
From "The Great Fire" by Jim Murphy
So the band climbed five storeys and created pandemonium in the middle of the day, as fans realised what was happening and rushed to vantage points on the streets and rooftops of neighbouring buildings.
From BBC ● May 11, 2026
In a public bomb shelter two storeys underground, one woman lay sleeping on a bunk bed in the mid-afternoon, while another worked at their laptop.
From Barron's ● Mar. 18, 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
The parliament building is a sprawling three-storey structure, with a central portion that is nine storeys high.
From BBC ● Jan. 1, 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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