Meaning

A floor or level of a building or ship..

Definitions by Sense

1. A floor or level of a building or ship.
2. (typography) A vertical level in certain letters, such as a and g.
3. (obsolete) A building; an edifice.

Example Sentences

For superstitious reasons, many buildings number their 13th storey as 14, bypassing 13 entirely.

a multi-storey car park

It was re-built in the year 1659, and conſiſts of two ſtories of aſhler work.—The loweſt, or ground flat, on each ſide of the main gate, is occupied by ſhops, and in the ſecond ſtorey, a range of large windows, with triangular pediments, give light to the Hall.

Let the ſtreet be 100 feet in breadth, from front to front; ſunk ſtorey, from front to paliſade, 10 feet; breadth of pavement, 8 feet; the height of the houſe 2 ſtories, 15 feet each, from floor to floor; […]

Each of the succeeding stories should be furnished in the same manner, with the platforms directly above one another, to afford protection against loose materials falling upon the man at the pump. If the water is wanted in the second storey, open the ejection pipe and cock below, shut the cock above, and direct the ejection pipe to where it is wanted.

This was the era of the polykatoikia, the apartment block built of unadorned concrete and typically five or six storeys high.

The IPA symbol for a voiced velar stop is the single-storey , not the double-storey

Word Forms

• storeys
• stories
• story

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When Should You Use Storey?

Use storey when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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