- 1a level of a building; a floor the upper/lower storey of the house a single-storey/two-storey building see also multi-storey Which Word?storey / floor You use storey (British English)/story (North American 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. note at floor Oxford Collocations Dictionary adjectivelower, top, upper, … verb + storey/storyhave, occupy, add, … prepositionon a/the storey phrasesfive, ten, etc. storeys/stories high, five, ten, etc. storeys/stories tall See full entry See related entries: Parts of a house
- 2-storeyed (British English) (North American 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).Extra examples He jumped out of the second-storey/second-story window. I live on the top storey. The building is four storeys/stories high. The building is four storeys high. The house has three storeys. The kitchen occupies the lower storey. They plan to add an extra storey. a five-storey house a single-storey/two-storey/three-storey building
storey
nounBrE BrE//ˈstɔːri//; NAmE NAmE//ˈstɔːri//
(pl. storeys, (North American English)stories) Parts of a houseCheck pronunciation: storey
