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
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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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 single storey building consists of five separate interconnecting buildings which are located around a cloistered courtyard and communal and administration areas.
From BBC ● Mar. 5, 2025
The school's two existing buildings will be demolished and replaced with a single two storey building, with temporary accommodation in place during the construction.
From BBC ● Feb. 25, 2025
In 2023, councillors gave planning permission to developers to put an extra storey on top of this building, despite concerns about the lack of light in many of the rooms.
From BBC ● Jan. 24, 2025
It came out of the third storey; for it passed overhead.
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
Storey started her career as a swimmer and competed at four Games before switching to cycling, winning a total of 30 Paralympic medals across nine Games, including four golds at London 2012.
From BBC ● Jul. 8, 2026
Born without a functioning left hand, Storey began her Paralympic career as a 14-year-old swimmer in 1992 and won 16 medals in the pool across four Games, including five golds.
From BBC ● Jul. 8, 2026
Storey says the medical-device industry’s growth is still likely to be hampered by tariffs.
From Barron's ● May 6, 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
Storey might well have given up entirely, except that all around him he saw fellow newspapermen scrambling to rent space and find type and paper.
From "The Great Fire" by Jim Murphy
Dressed in their uniforms and carrying equipment, they climbed 110 floors up and down the Galfa Tower, in remembrance of the number of storeys on each of the Twin Towers.
From BBC ● Sep. 11, 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
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
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
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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