storey
/ˈstɔɹ.i/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.61 in modern English
9
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
A surname.
name
An unincorporated community in Madera County, California, United States.
Example Sentences
- "For superstitious reasons, many buildings number their 13th storey as 14, bypassing 13 entirely."
- "a multi-storey car park"
- "It was re-built in the year 1659, and conſiſts of two ſtories of aſhler work.—The loweſt, or ground flat, on each ſide of the main gate, is occupied by ſhops, and in the ſecond ſtorey, a range of large windows, with triangular pediments, give light to the Hall."
- "Let the ſtreet be 100 feet in breadth, from front to front; ſunk ſtorey, from front to paliſade, 10 feet; breadth of pavement, 8 feet; the height of the houſe 2 ſtories, 15 feet each, from floor to floor; […]"
- "Each of the succeeding stories should be furnished in the same manner, with the platforms directly above one another, to afford protection against loose materials falling upon the man at the pump. If the water is wanted in the second storey, open the ejection pipe and cock below, shut the cock above, and direct the ejection pipe to where it is wanted."
- "This was the era of the polykatoikia, the apartment block built of unadorned concrete and typically five or six storeys high."
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.
Origin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈstɔɹ.i/
- British English: /ˈstɔː.ɹɪ/
Usage
Inflected Forms
Derived Forms
Phrases
multi-storey
second-storey man
second-storey worker
two-storey a
two-storey g
upper storey
Storey in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)
Storey County
Frequently Paired Words
Storey in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)
deck