storey

CEFRA2

/ˈstɔː.ɹɪ/

noun

Türkçe translations

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In plain English

  1. 01

    noun

    A level of a building.

  2. 02

    noun

    Extra detail

    A building; an edifice.

Examples

  • I live on the top floor of a six storey apartment block.

  • Sami jumped out of the second storey window.

At a glance

Sits at A2 on the CEFR scale

Senses
4
Parts of speech
1
Citations
4
Synonyms
2

Also pronounced

  • /ˈstɔː.ɹi/

Deep Dive

noun

Extra meanings

  1. A vertical level in certain letters, such as a and g.

  2. A floor or level of a building or ship.

More examples

In context

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

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

  • a multi-storey car park

Synonyms

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Origin

noun

From Middle English story, via Medieval Latin historia (“narrative, illustraton, frieze”) from Ancient Greek ἱστορίᾱ (historíā, “learning through research”). The current sense arose from narrative friezes on upper levels of medieval buildings, esp. churches. Doublet of story and history. An alternative etymology derives Middle English story from Old French *estoree (“a thing built, building”), from estoree (“built”), feminine past participle of estorer (“to build”), from Latin instaurare (“to construct, build, erect”), but this seems unlikely since historia already had the meaning "storey of a building" in Anglo-Latin.