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
Just before 01:00 a fire broke out in the kitchen of a fourth floor flat at the 23 storey tower block in North Kensington.
From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2024
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
It came out of the third storey; for it passed overhead.
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 staff who were told to observe Gedel through the hatch in his cell door commented on "his perky demeanour".
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
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
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 parliament building is a sprawling three-storey structure, with a central portion that is nine storeys high.
From BBC ● Jan. 1, 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
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
Except that here the cars were driving above and under each other as if they were on interchanges that were stacked ten storeys high.
From "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel
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