storey

American  

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

noun

Chiefly British.

plural

storeys

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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Etymology

Origin of storey

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

Example Sentences

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

Among the first remnants of the building to be dismantled is a 'floating' chimney stack still attached to the adjoining block, several storeys above ground.

From BBC

The staffers finally bolted down nine storeys of smoke-choked stairs - no masks, just wet shirts and jackets pressed to their faces.

From BBC

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

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