A storey (Commonwealth English) [1] or story (American English), [2] is any level part of a building with a floor that could be used by people (for living, work, storage, recreation, etc.). Plurals for the word are storeys (UK, CAN) and stories (US).
You refer to the different levels in a building as its storeys or floors. If you are saying how many levels a building has, you usually use storeys. They live in a house with four storeys.
The words storey and floor exclude levels of the building that are not covered by a roof, such as the terrace on the top roof of many buildings. They also often exclude basements and most attics.
/ˈstɔri/ IPA guide Other forms: storeys 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
She jumped from the third storey of the house to escape the fire. At the turn of the century, Congress placed a height restriction of 13 storeys on all buildings in Washington.
Definition of storey noun in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
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.
What is the etymology of the noun storey? storey is apparently a variant or alteration of another lexical item; modelled on a Latin lexical item. Etymons: story n.
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