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noun
- 1. a part of a building comprising all the rooms that are on the same level: "a three-storey building"
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a level of a building: a three-storey house. Their new house has four storeys including the attic. Synonyms. floor (LEVEL OF BUILDING) level (FLOOR) Fewer examples. The proposed new office tower is a steel and glass structure 43 storeys high. My bedroom is on the third storey. Most of the houses in this street have three or four storeys.
A storey of a building is one of its different levels, which is situated above or below other levels. Houses must not be more than two storeys high. ...the upper storeys of the Empire State Building.
a floor or level of a building. a set of rooms on one level. Discover More. Word History and Origins. Origin of storey 1. C14: from Anglo-Latin historia, picture, from Latin: narrative, probably arising from the pictures on medieval windows. Discover More. Example Sentences. Storey said Wright often returned applications “dripping in red pen.”
n., pl. -ries, n. 1. a narrative, either true or fictitious, in prose or verse; tale. 2. a fictitious tale, shorter and less elaborate than a novel. 3. such narratives or tales as a branch of literature: song and story. 4. the plot or succession of incidents of a novel, poem, drama, etc.
Definitions of storey. noun. a structure consisting of a room or set of rooms at a single position along a vertical scale. synonyms: floor, level, story. see more.
Definition of storey noun in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
noun [ C ] UK (US story) uk / ˈstɔːri / us. Add to word list Add to word list. B2. a level of a building: a three-storey house. (Definition of storey from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)
storey meaning, definition, what is storey: a floor or level of a building: Learn more.
A floor or level of a building or ship. For superstitious reasons, many buildings number their 13th storey as 14, bypassing 13 entirely. Wiktionary. Synonyms: story. level. floor. Other Word Forms of Storey. Noun. Singular: storey. Plural: storeys. Origin of Storey.
1. -storey is used after numbers to form adjectives that indicate that a building has a particular number of floors or levels. [...] 2. See also multi-storey. More. Definitions of 'Storey' David ( Malcolm ). (1933–2017), British novelist and dramatist.
