STOREY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does storey mean? 

• STOREY (noun)
  The noun STOREY has 1 sense:

1. a structure consisting of a room or set of rooms at a single position along a vertical scale

  Familiarity information: STOREY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• STOREY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A structure consisting of a room or set of rooms at a single position along a vertical scale

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

floor; level; storey; story

Context example:

what level is the office on?

Hypernyms ("storey" is a kind of...):

construction; structure (a thing constructed; a complex entity constructed of many parts)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "storey"):

basement; cellar (the lowermost portion of a structure partly or wholly below ground level; often used for storage)

first floor; ground floor; ground level (the floor of a building that is at or nearest to the level of the ground around the building)

attic; garret; loft (floor consisting of open space at the top of a house just below roof; often used for storage)

loft (floor consisting of a large unpartitioned space over a factory or warehouse or other commercial space)

entresol; mezzanine; mezzanine floor (intermediate floor just above the ground floor)

Holonyms ("storey" is a part of...):

building; edifice (a structure that has a roof and walls and stands more or less permanently in one place)

 Context examples 

I must pay a visit to the second storey.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

We proceeded to the top-storey of the house.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

I was now in a wing of the castle further to the right than the rooms I knew and a storey lower down.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

The far greater proportion of the building was occupied by the theatre, which filled almost the whole ground storey and was lighted from above, and by the cabinet, which formed an upper storey at one end and looked upon the court.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

It was three storeys high, of proportions not vast, though considerable: a gentleman's manor-house, not a nobleman's seat: battlements round the top gave it a picturesque look.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

It appeared to me, on looking over the tradesmen's books, as if we might have kept the basement storey paved with butter, such was the extensive scale of our consumption of that article.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

As I leaned from the window my eye was caught by something moving a storey below me, and somewhat to my left, where I imagined, from the order of the rooms, that the windows of the Count's own room would look out.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

It was two storeys high; showed no window, nothing but a door on the lower storey and a blind forehead of discoloured wall on the upper; and bore in every feature, the marks of prolonged and sordid negligence.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

He glided up the gallery and up the stairs, and stopped in the dark, low corridor of the fateful third storey: I had followed and stood at his side.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Number two in the Court was soon reached; and an inscription on the door-post informing me that Mr. Traddles occupied a set of chambers on the top storey, I ascended the staircase.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)