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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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Etymology

Origin of storey

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

Example Sentences

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 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

The Bicol peninsula was worst-hit, where floodwaters chased people and their pets to the second storey of their homes.

From BBC • Oct. 24, 2024

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

All these relics gave to the third storey of Thornfield Hall the aspect of a home of the past: a shrine of memory.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë