storey
pronunciation
How to pronounce storey in British English:
UK [ˈstɔːri]
How to pronounce storey in American English:
US [ˈstɔːri]
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- Noun:
- structure consisting of a room or set of rooms comprising a single level of a multilevel building
Word Origin
- storey
- storey: [14] Storey is etymologically the same word as story. Both come ultimately from Latin historia ‘story’ (source also of English history). Storey itself was borrowed directly from Anglo- Latin historia, which is known to have been used for ‘picture’, and may also have denoted a ‘row of pictures in the form of stained glass windows or statues, telling a story’, which filled the entire wall between floor and ceiling at a given level of a building.=> history, story
Example
- 1. In shansi province two storey and one and a half storey houses are typical .
- 2. Broadwood twelve provides 74 nos.identical apartments , 2 nos.duplex units and 4 storey carpark .
- 3. In 2001 they built a new family home , adding a second storey last year .
- 4. Meanwhile , their loosely fitted joints allow each storey to slide horizontally independently of the others .
- 5. But the greenhouses on the barge were only one storey high , so there was not much need for artificial lighting .