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half story

noun

, Architecture.
  1. a usable living space within a sloping roof, usually having dormer windows for lighting.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of half story1

First recorded in 1610–20

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Example Sentences

The main building consisted of two ground-floor rooms, each with a front door and a half-story room above.

After breakfast we were conducted to the second half-story, which was one unfinished room.

It is a plain, substantial two-and-a-half story brick house of thirteen rooms, with modern conveniences, and belongs to Miss Mary.

The first story was rough stone, the half-story of shingles, that had once been painted red.

Buzz turned toward the inside wooden stairway that led to the half-story above.

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