storey
noun/ˈstɔːri/
/ˈstɔːri/
(US English story)
(plural storeys, US English stories)
- a level of a building; a floor
- the upper/lower storey of the house
- a single-storey/two-storey building
Homophones storey | storystorey story/ˈstɔːri//ˈstɔːri/- storey noun
- There are splendid views from the tenth storey.
- story noun
- It's not real—it's just a story.
Which Word? storey / floorstorey / floor- You use storey (British English)/story (US English) mainly when you are talking about the number of levels a building has:
- a five-storey house
- The office building is five storeys high.
- Floor is used mainly to talk about which particular level in the building someone lives on, goes to, etc:
- His office is on the fifth floor.
Extra ExamplesTopics Houses and homesc1, Buildingsc1- He jumped out of the second-storey/second-story window.
- I live on the top storey.
- The building is four storeys/stories high.
- The house has three storeys.
- The kitchen occupies the lower storey.
- They plan to add an extra storey.
- a five-storey house
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- lower
- top
- upper
- …
- have
- occupy
- add
- …
- on a/the storey
- five, ten, etc. storeys/stories high
- five, ten, etc. storeys/stories tall
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- -storeyed(British English)(US English -storied)(in adjectives) (of a building) having the number of levels mentioned
- a four-storeyed building
Word Originlate Middle English: shortening of Latin historia ‘history, story’, a special use in Anglo-Latin, perhaps originally denoting a tier of painted windows or sculptures on the front of a building (representing a historical subject).
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