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

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

Last May, the firm was given planning permission from Manchester City Council to turn the building into a 37 storey, 595 bed block of student flats.

From BBC • Jun. 24, 2025

The vehicle involved was believed to have fallen from the third storey.

From BBC • Jun. 16, 2025

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

We waited hand in hand on the twenty-fourth storey, by the open door, the door that led into darkness.

From "The London Eye Mystery" by Siobhan Dowd