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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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
"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
We went down the street and turned into a bit of lawn in which, set back from the street, stood a one storey building of brick trimmed with white.
From "The Sound and the Fury" by William Faulkner
Cleveland PCC Matt Storey said Cleveland Police was still waiting for the extra funding promised by the home secretary in August.
From BBC ● Oct. 23, 2026
Storey said the current police funding model, which Mahmood had previously committed to reviewing, disadvantaged the Teesside force.
From BBC ● Oct. 23, 2026
"I am so privileged to have spent 35 years as an international athlete," Storey said.
From BBC ● Jul. 8, 2026
Cycling greats Dame Laura Kenny, Sir Jason Kenny, Dame Sarah Storey and Tom Pidcock have all signed a joint statement "to express our strong and united support".
From BBC ● Jun. 22, 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
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
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
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
The parliament building is a sprawling three-storey structure, with a central portion that is nine storeys high.
From BBC ● Jan. 1, 2026
It was three storeys high, of proportions not vast, though considerable: a gentleman’s manor-house, not a nobleman’s seat: battlements round the top gave it a picturesque look.
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
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