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
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 67-year-old said she avoids having guests in her 24th storey Northolt council flat because she does not like people seeing the mould, which plagues almost every room.
From BBC ● May 27, 2025
And about 10,000m2 of disused rooms above the department store in the six storey building will be made into a hotel.
From BBC ● Feb. 13, 2024
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
"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
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
Take the case of Wilbur Storey, the owner of the Chicago Times newspaper.
From "The Great Fire" by Jim Murphy
The BSR is responsible for overseeing the design and safety of all tower blocks of 18 metres or above, equivalent to seven storeys.
From BBC ● Jul. 28, 2026
Bulldozers, diggers and cranes can be used to shift three storeys of concrete, for instance, to find someone trapped, Selvakumaran says.
From BBC ● Jun. 29, 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
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
Salim said how huge it was and I said it had twenty-four storeys and Kat said it would be flattened any day now by our dad.
From "The London Eye Mystery" by Siobhan Dowd
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