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English

Alternative spellings

story (mainly US)

Pronunciation

: Rhymes: Rhymes:English:-ɔːri|-ɔːri

Etymology

Latin: historia: a row of windows with pictures on them.

Noun

A floor or level of a building.
: For superstitious reasons, many buildings number their 13th storey as 14, bypassing 13 entirely.

Related terms

-storeyed

Translations

Croatian: {{t+|hr|kat|m}}
Czech: {{t-|cs|podlaží|n}}

French: {{t+|fr|étage|m}}
German: Stock , Geschoss , Etage

fr:storey io:storey hu:storey fi:storey ta:storey vi:storey zh:storey

GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Storey \Sto"rey\, n.
See Story.
[1913 Webster]

GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Story \Sto"ry\, n.; pl. Stories. [OF. estor['e], estor['e]e,
built, erected, p. p. of estorer to build, restore, to store.
See Store, v. t.]
A set of rooms on the same floor or level; a floor, or the
space between two floors. Also, a horizontal division of a
building's exterior considered architecturally, which need
not correspond exactly with the stories within. [Written also
storey.]
[1913 Webster]

Note: A story comprehends the distance from one floor to
another; as, a story of nine or ten feet elevation. The
spaces between floors are numbered in order, from below
upward; as, the lower, second, or third story; a house
of one story, of two stories, of five stories.
[1913 Webster]

Story post (Arch.), a vertical post used to support a floor
or superincumbent wall.
[1913 Webster]

WordNet storey
n : structure consisting of a room or set of rooms comprising a
single level of a multilevel building; "what level is the
office on?" [syn: floor, level, story]

Moby Dictionary 3399
Housing Units (2000): 1596
Land area (2000): 263.452523 sq. miles (682.338873 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.343823 sq. miles (0.890498 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 263.796346 sq. miles (683.229371 sq. km)
Located within: Nevada (NV) , FIPS 32
Location: 39.386106 N , 119.611095 W
Headwords:
Storey
Storey , NV
Storey County
Storey County , NV