storeysto‧rey British English, story American English /ˈstɔːri/ ●○○ noun [countable] 
a staircase leads to the upper storeytwo-storey/five-storey etc (=having two etc storeys)► see thesaurus at floor
WORD ORIGINstorey
Origin:
1300-1400 story; perhaps because some medieval buildings had paintings on their walls telling storiesEXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
- A Lloyd's signal station was to occupy the top storey, but the offer was not taken up.
- In a large fenced-off security zone, drums pile up to the level of a two storey house.
- She had the first and second floor of a thin, dilapidated building that was a ruin above the third storey.
- The eastern half was a warehouse, a storey higher than the mill and built later, around 1890.
- The pathologist: Injuries consistent with a fall from an upper storey.
- The third storey of the town gaol was pierced by a doorway over which projected a beam.
THESAURUS
one of the levels in a building: · She lives in an apartment on the eighteenth floor.
British English, story American English used when saying how many levels a building has: · a five-storey car park· The school is a single storey building.
(also the first floor American English) the floor of a building that is at ground level: · There is a shop on the ground floor.· The emergency room is on the first floor.
British English, the second floor American English the floor of a building above the one at ground level: · She lives on the first floor.
one of the levels on a ship, bus, or plane: · The Horizon Lounge is on the top deck of the ship.
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COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY a staircase leads to the upper storey
a floor or level of a building: a staircase leads to the upper storey (=having two etc storeys)
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES (=having many levels)· Many shops and offices have been rebuilt in high multi-storey blocks.
(=with two, three etc floors)· Our villa was a delightful two-storey building.
(=with only one floor)
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE· High-bay warehouses, as a single volume, can normally be considered as being single storey buildings.· Around the village were scattered single storey dwellings with straw roofs and unpainted walls.· The house was only single-storey, but expansive in the Moorish style, with serial white arches and terracotta tiles.
· A Lloyd's signal station was to occupy the top storey, but the offer was not taken up.· The top storey had yielded nothing.· The top storey has no openings and the order is in pilaster form.· Water was soon cascading down the stairs from the top storey.· Didn't we notice that her voice really wasn't that strong when it went right up to the top storey?
· There is a complex layout of these basement halls which were built to support the upper storey state apartments.· The removal of Franca from the upper storey was perhaps the sign that her arrival was imminent.· The pathologist: Injuries consistent with a fall from an upper storey.· The upper storey is in the form of a gallery for women which extends into the church.· The stair-well in this wing indicates an upper storey which presumably would have been much on the same plan.· The nave is barrel vaulted and on its north side a staircase leads to the upper storey which has a round gallery.· The long window of the upper storey was designed to throw the maximum light on the loom.· The upper storey of 180 feet provided accommodation for the library, committee room and living quarters for the gardener.
NOUN· The Pineta is a two storey building and all the bedrooms are served by a lift.· It was like being in an elevator which suddenly drops from the top of a twenty storey building to the basement.· The authority insists that the two storey buildings are structurally sound and safe.· The five storey building features a circular atrium topped by a stained glass dome.· High-bay warehouses, as a single volume, can normally be considered as being single storey buildings.· The two storey building has space for 300 of the college's students.· A two storey building and some caravans were severely damaged.
· Mrs. Burden who lived at number 70, another two storey house was quite a character.· In a large fenced-off security zone, drums pile up to the level of a two storey house.· Detectives launched an enquiry after the body of Michael Chatfield was found as firemen fought a blaze in a three storey house.· Where the trees ended we came to a wooden two-storey house with a low white paling.
VERB· Dockbuild Limited also wants to build a three storey office development on the site.· Work has started on a £17.6 million project to build a five storey office headquarters in Rochdale for Co-operative Retail Services.
a staircase leads to the upper storeytwo-storey/five-storey etc (=having two etc storeys)► see thesaurus at floor