storey
noun
storey
American
[stawr-ee, stohr-ee]
/ ˈstɔr i, ˈstoʊr i /
noun
Chiefly British.
storeys
plural
storey
1
British
/ ˈstɔːrɪ /
noun
-
a floor or level of a building
-
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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"The fire involved a single storey pavilion, with just over half of the structure damaged by the fire."
From BBC ● Jun. 20, 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 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
We waited hand in hand on the twenty-fourth storey, by the open door, the door that led into darkness.
From "The London Eye Mystery" by Siobhan Dowd
"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 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
Soon, he, too, was filled with a new determination; Storey borrowed money from friends, dug out some old type from his barn, and had the Times publishing again on October 18.
From "The Great Fire" by Jim Murphy
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
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
Two storeys of the building used as a depot were destroyed in the fire, images aired by the Turkish NTV channel showed.
From Barron's ● Nov. 8, 2025
It was easily two storeys up from the unmown lawn and had a gabled roof with real shingles.
From "The Marrow Thieves" by Cherie Dimaline
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