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  storey

  noun

  story.
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  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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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

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

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

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

He’d be right at the top on the twenty-fourth storey.

From "The London Eye Mystery" by Siobhan Dowd