storey

storey meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu

Examples of storey in a sentence

• If the water is wanted in the second storey, open the ejection pipe and cock below, shut the cock above, and direct the ejection pipe to where it is wanted.1825, W. S., “Plan for Extinguishing Fire & Protecting Buildings”, in The Glasgow Mechanics’ Magazine; and Annals of Philosophy, volume II...
• This was the era of the polykatoikia, the apartment block built of unadorned concrete and typically five or six storeys high.2019, Roderick Beaton, Greece: Biography of a Modern Country, Penguin, published 2020, page 307:

Synonyms of storey

• floor
• level

Forms of storey

Origin of storey

From Middle English story, via Medieval Latin historia (“narrative, illustraton, frieze”) from Ancient Greek ἱστορίᾱ (historíā, “learning through research”). The current sense arose from narrative friezes on upper levels of medieval buildings, esp. churches. Doublet of story and history. An alternative etymology derives Middle English story from Old French *estoree (“a thing built, building”), from estoree (“built”), feminine past participle of estorer (“to build”), from Latin instaurare (“to construct, build, erect”), but this seems unlikely since historia already had the meaning "storey of a building" in Anglo-Latin.

Originates from the Old Norse personal epithet “Stóri”, a derivative of “Storr” which means “large” or “big”. Even though it has been established that the root of the name is “Storr”, R.E.K. Rigbeye, in his book The Storey’s of Old claims that the suffix “ey[e]”, in the variant of Storey, is equivalent to the Icelandic “ig” and signifies “water”. According to him, “Storr” also denotes large in the sense of vast and rough.

Words formed from storey

• Storey County
• midstorey
• multi-storey
• overstorey
• second-storey man
• second-storey worker
• storeyed
• two-storey a
• two-storey g
• upper storey

Related words

• Storey in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)

Phrases with storey

• long storey short

Words that rhyme with storey

• glory
• hoary
• story
• tory
• cory
• a priori
• corey
• gory
• rory
• satori
• zori
• dory

Questions about storey

What does storey mean?

Storey means a floor or level of a building or ship.

What is storey in Hindi?

Storey in Hindi is तल (tal). See Storey meaning in Hindi.

How do you use storey in a sentence?

If the water is wanted in the second storey, open the ejection pipe and cock below, shut the cock above, and direct the ejection pipe to where it is wanted.

What part of speech is storey?

Storey can be a noun or a proper noun.

How do you pronounce storey?

Storey is pronounced /ˈstɔː.ɹɪ/ (UK).

What is the plural of storey?

The plural of storey is storeys.