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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

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 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

And about 10,000m2 of disused rooms above the department store in the six storey building will be made into a hotel.

From BBC • Feb. 13, 2024

It came out of the third storey; for it passed overhead.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë

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