STORIED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does storied mean? 

• STORIED (adjective)
  The adjective STORIED has 2 senses:

1. having an illustrious past

2. having stories as indicated

  Familiarity information: STORIED used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• STORIED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Having an illustrious past

Synonyms:

celebrated; historied; storied

Similar:

glorious (having or deserving or conferring glory)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Having stories as indicated

Synonyms:

storeyed; storied

Context example:

a six-storied building

Similar:

high-rise (used of buildings of many stories equipped with elevators; tall)

Domain usage:

combining form (a bound form used only in compounds)

 Context examples 

“This is the street,” said he, as we turned into a short thoroughfare lined with plain two-storied brick houses.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It was a widespread, comfortable-looking building, two-storied, slate-roofed, with great yellow blotches of lichen upon the grey walls.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The cottage had been standing empty this eight months, and it was a pity, for it was a pretty two-storied place, with an old-fashioned porch and honeysuckle about it.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It was a poky, little, shabby-genteel place, where four lines of dingy two-storied brick houses looked out into a small railed-in enclosure, where a lawn of weedy grass and a few clumps of faded laurel bushes made a hard fight against a smoke-laden and uncongenial atmosphere.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)