storey
Noun
- A floor or level of a building.
- a structure consisting of a room or set of rooms at a single position along a vertical scale
- A floor or level of a building or ship.
- A vertical level in certain letters, such as a and g.
- A building; an edifice.
Examples
- a multi-storey car park
- For superstitious reasons, many buildings number their 13th storey as 14, bypassing 13 entirely.
- He added another STOREY to his word, building ’FLOOR’ into ’FLOORBOARDS’.
- The IPA symbol for a voiced velar stop is the single-storey , not the double-storey .
Origin / Etymology
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.
Scrabble Score: 9
storey: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordstorey: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
storey: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary
Words With Friends Score: 8
storey: valid Words With Friends Word