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storey

sto·rey

UK/ˈstɔː.ɹɪ/ US/ˈstɔː.ɹi/ rare obsolete

noun

1.

structure consisting of a room or set of rooms comprising a single level of a multilevel building

  • “what level is the office on?”
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Origin

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.

Phrases

  • second-storey man
  • second-storey worker
  • Storey in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)
  • two-storey a
  • two-storey g
  • upper storey

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