storey

[ stawr-ee, stohr-ee ]

noun

, Chiefly British.

, plural sto·reys.

1. story ².

storey

¹

/ ˈstɔːrɪ /

noun

1. a floor or level of a building
2. a set of rooms on one level

Storey

²

/ ˈstɔːrɪ /

noun

1. StoreyDavid (Malcolm)1933MBritishWRITING: novelistTHEATRE: dramatist David ( Malcolm ). born 1933, British novelist and dramatist. His best-known works include the novels This Sporting Life (1960) and A Serious Man (1998) and the plays In Celebration (1969), Home (1970), and Stages (1992)

Word History and Origins

Origin of storey¹

C14: from Anglo-Latin historia, picture, from Latin: narrative, probably arising from the pictures on medieval windows

Example Sentences

Storey said Wright often returned applications “dripping in red pen.”

From The Daily Beast

She survived by spending the night in the two-storey Barangay hall – the local community centre.

From The Daily Beast

Fronting directly on the street is a two-storey wall, pierced by two doorways: entrance and exit to the compound.

From The Daily Beast

In her book Storey included notes of conversations she had had with Kate about Dickens and Ellen.

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“This is not the news we wanted to hear,” said Jefferson County District Attorney Scott Storey.

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In the campanile of S. Alessio there are two arcades in each storey, each divided with a mid-wall shaft.

From Project Gutenberg

This storey was reached by staircases, access to which was gained through doors at each end of the faade.

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Above these doors were the high windows of the upper storey, the Hall having two floors.

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It towers above us, blocking out the sky as a street of six-storey houses would do.

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There is only one window in the fourth storey, which gives light to the belfry, and is very large.

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