storey

[ stawr-ee, stohr-ee ]

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noun

Chiefly British.

plural storeys.

story ².

Storey

/ ˈ��ɔː��ɪ /

noun

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

/ ˈ��ɔː��ɪ /

noun

a floor or level of a building
a set of rooms on one level

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Word History and Origins

Origin of storey¹

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

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The excavation has so far revealed sections of stone wall that formed the base of the basilica, which would have been two-and-a-half storeys high.

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Six fire engines were sent to Blairlinn Industrial Estate in Cumbernauld at 14:35 where a single storey building was found to be "well alight".

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Decades of dumping has filled Arnold's Field with about 40,000 cubic metres of unregulated waste, two storeys deep.

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The application provides detailed designs for 336 proposed homes arranged in four blocks up to 16 storeys tall, along with outline plans for 629 more homes.

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The single storey building consists of five separate interconnecting buildings which are located around a cloistered courtyard and communal and administration areas.

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storewide storeyed

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