storey

[ stawr-ee, stohr-ee ]

noun

, Chiefly British.

, plural sto·reys.

1. story ².

Storey

¹

/ ˈstɔːrɪ /

noun

1. StoreyDavid (Malcolm)1933MBritishWRITING: novelistTHEATRE: dramatist 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

²

/ ˈstɔːrɪ /

noun

1. a floor or level of a building
2. a set of rooms on one level

Word History and Origins

Origin of storey¹

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

Example Sentences

Roads, bridges and railway tracks were washed away or blocked by debris, while landslides left houses buried in rocks and earth as high as their upper storeys.

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Photos shared by the fire service show flames engulfing multiple storeys of the vacant building, with boarded windows burned through and fire seen spreading to the roof.

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The 61-year-old has not been seen in public since the attacks in October, and is believed to be hiding “10 storeys underground” in Gaza, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said in June.

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It said Ms Lungu owned "15 white double storey flats" situated in State Lodge area of Lusaka's Chongwe town, "reasonably suspected to be proceeds of crime".

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A five-year-old boy died when he fell from a kitchen window on the 15th storey of an east London tower block, an inquest has heard.

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