storey

storey or (US) story (ˈstɔːrɪ)

—n , pl -reys, -ries
1.	a floor or level of a building
2.	a set of rooms on one level

[C14: from Anglo-Latin historia, picture, from Latin: narrative, probably arising from the pictures on medieval windows]

story or (US) story

—n

[C14: from Anglo-Latin historia, picture, from Latin: narrative, probably arising from the pictures on medieval windows]

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a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal.

a calculus or concretion found in the stomach or intestines of certain animals, esp. ruminants, formerly reputed to be an effective remedy for poison.

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Storey (ˈstɔːrɪ)

—n
	David (Malcolm). born 1933, British novelist and dramatist. His best-known works include the novels This Sporting Life (1960) and A Serious Man (1998) and the plays In Celebration (1969), Home (1970), and Stages (1992)

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Example sentences

People from these are being moved into new, six-storey buildings.

The blue garage door in a street of two-storey terraced houses gives no

indication that people rather than cars are housed within.

Among the shacks, though, rise three-storey brick structures with satellite

dishes on their tin roofs.

He argues that it is unsafe, with many of its multi-storey buildings in danger

of collapsing.

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"Let the space under the first storey be dark, let the water
lap the stone posts, and vivid green slime glimmer
upon them; let a boat be kept there."

-Denise Levertov