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  storey

  noun

  story.
• Storey
  Storey

  noun

  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)

storey

American  

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

noun

Chiefly British.

storeys plural

1. story.

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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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Inflected Forms

noun

• storeys
  plural

Etymology

Origin of storey

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

Example Sentences

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

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

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

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