storey
Americannoun
plural
storeysnoun
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a floor or level of a building
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a set of rooms on one level
noun
Etymology
Origin of storey
C14: from Anglo-Latin historia, picture, from Latin: narrative, probably arising from the pictures on medieval windows
Example Sentences
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The staffers finally bolted down nine storeys of smoke-choked stairs - no masks, just wet shirts and jackets pressed to their faces.
From BBC
Images, widely circulated online, showed huge snow piles reaching up to the second storey of buildings and people digging their way through roads as snow blanketed cars on either side.
From Barron's
About 50 sanitation workers were buried when refuse toppled onto them Thursday from what a city councillor estimated was a height of 20 storeys at the Binaliw Landfill, a privately operated facility in Cebu City.
From Barron's
The parliament building is a sprawling three-storey structure, with a central portion that is nine storeys high.
From BBC
Prof Gaffney, from the University of Bradford, explained it would have taken a lot of effort to dig the holes - around two storeys deep - from the chalk landscape.
From BBC
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