storey

[stawr-ee, stohr-ee] /ˈstɔr i, ˈstoʊr i/
noun, plural storeys. Chiefly British
1.
story2 .
Examples from the web for storey
  • They went in from the yard and up to the fourth storey.
  • There are three light switches on the ground-floor wall of a three-storey house.
  • Among the shacks, though, rise three-storey brick structures with satellite dishes on their tin roofs.
  • People from these are being moved into new, six-storey buildings.
  • He argues that it is unsafe, with many of its multi-storey buildings in danger of collapsing.
  • The blue garage door in a street of two-storey terraced houses gives no indication that people rather than cars are housed within.
  • The upper storey and its pediment give the impression of compressing the lower one.
British Dictionary definitions for storey

storey

/ˈstɔːrɪ/
noun (pl) -reys, -ries
1.
a floor or level of a building
2.
a set of rooms on one level
Word Origin
C14: from Anglo-Latin historia, picture, from Latin: narrative, probably arising from the pictures on medieval windows

Storey

/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)