storey
noun
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- a variation of story.
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
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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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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
Six fire engines were sent to Blairlinn Industrial Estate in Cumbernauld at 14:35 where a single storey building was found to be "well alight".
From BBC ● Apr. 1, 2025
The school's two existing buildings will be demolished and replaced with a single two storey building, with temporary accommodation in place during the construction.
From BBC ● Feb. 25, 2025
In 2023, councillors gave planning permission to developers to put an extra storey on top of this building, despite concerns about the lack of light in many of the rooms.
From BBC ● Jan. 24, 2025
And the door at the end of the gallery opened, and Mr. Rochester advanced with a candle: he had just descended from the upper storey.
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
"I am so privileged to have spent 35 years as an international athlete," Storey said.
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 says the medical-device industry’s growth is still likely to be hampered by tariffs.
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
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
The staffers finally bolted down nine storeys of smoke-choked stairs - no masks, just wet shirts and jackets pressed to their faces.
From BBC ● Feb. 25, 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
Prof Gaffney, from the University of Bradford, explained it would have taken a lot of effort to dig the holes - around two storeys deep - from the chalk landscape.
From BBC ● Nov. 27, 2025
Some were a full four storeys high; in one block, the fronts of the buildings were decorated with beaten gold.
From "The Shakespeare Stealer" by Gary L. Blackwood
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