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storey

American  
[stawr-ee, stohr-ee] / ˈstɔr i, ˈstoʊr i /

noun

Chiefly British.

plural

storeys

  1. story.

storey 1 British  
/ ˈstɔːrɪ /

noun

  1. a floor or level of a building

  2. a set of rooms on one level

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Storey 2 British  
/ ˈstɔːrɪ /

noun

  1. 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)

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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

Example Sentences

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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 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

Six fire engines were sent to Blairlinn Industrial Estate in Cumbernauld at 14:35 where a single storey building was found to be "well alight".

From BBC • Apr. 1, 2025

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

Now it was nothing more than one storey, maybe two, of jagged edges, melted poles, and broken cement.

From "The Marrow Thieves" by Cherie Dimaline

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