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Definition: Storey |
StoreyNoun1. Structure consisting of a room or set of rooms comprising a single level of a multilevel building; "what level is the office on?". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "storey" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1854. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Food & Agriculture | A roughly horizontal stratum, i. e. layer, of vegetation formed by a plant community, in forests essentially by their canopy layers. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: StoreySynonyms: floor (n), level (n), story (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Storey |
| Specialty definitions using "storey": Attics, Attic Storey. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | How can a seven storey building in Walthamstow be top secret (Yes, Minister; writing credit: Semyon Lungin) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Moorfield Storey, three-quarter length portrait, seated, facing front. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Turkey Pond, near Concord, New Hampshire. Women workers employed by a U.S. Department of Agriculture timber salvage sawmill. Mrs. Violet Storey, "take away," getting ready to take the rough board as it comes through the main saw. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
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| ""HI" to the world" by Mo Commentary: "Picture was taken in january this year (2002) from the 4th storey my brother and me made that "HI" in the snow an dec 31th 2001 and take a photo the next year ;D." | "Block of flats 2" by Peter Hamza Commentary: "Ugly 22 storey block of flats located in debrecen, hungary." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. | |
| "Storey" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 75.19% of the time. "Storey" is used about 391 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 75.19% | 294 | 16,951 |
| Noun (proper) | 24.81% | 97 | 33,269 |
| Total | 100.00% | 391 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "storey" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Storey | Last name | 6,000 | 2,190 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
Expressions using "storey": Storey County ♦ tall storey ♦ upper storey. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "storey": storey-colonnaded, Storey-gibson, Storey-moore. | |
Ending with "storey": four-storey, lower-storey, multi-storey, nine-storey, one-storey, second-storey, seven-storey, single-storey, six-storey, ten-storey, three-storey, two-storey, upper-storey. | |
Containing "storey": one-and-a-half-storey-high, seventeen-storey-high, three-storey-high, three-story three-storied three-storey three-storeyed. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "storey"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | verdieping (floor, story). (various references) | |
Albanian | kat (floor, pair of stairs, story). (various references) | |
Arabic | طابق (conform, flat, floor, identity, stratify, tier), دور أو طابق, دور (age, circle, cycle, floor, function, part, place, refrain, role, round, say, turn). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | етаж (floor, level, story). (various references) | |
Chinese | 楼层. (various references) | |
Czech | poschodí (deck, floor), podlaží, patro (floor, loft, palate). (various references) | |
Danish | etage (floor, story). (various references) | |
Dutch | verdieping (floor, story), etage (floor, story). (various references) | |
Esperanto | etaĝo (floor, story). (various references) | |
Faeroese | hædd (floor, height, level, story). (various references) | |
Finnish | kerros (floor, layer, story, stratum). (various references) | |
French | étage (stage, story). (various references) | |
Frisian | ferdjipping (floor, story). (various references) | |
German | Stockwerk (floor, story), Stock (baton, cane, cue, floor, massif, pointer, pot plant, rock mass, roots, rosebush, staff, stick, stock, stocks, story, vine), Etage (floor, level, story, tier), Geschoß (floor, missile, projectile, story). (various references) | |
Greek | όροφος (floor), πάτωμα (floor, story). (various references) | |
Hawaiian | kat (floor, story). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מפלס (level), דיוטה (floor). (various references) | |
Hungarian | szint (bench, floor, horizon, level, mark, plane, rate, story), emelet (flight, floor, story). (various references) | |
Italian | piano (arrangement, deck, design, even, flat, floor, gently, in a low voice, level, level land, map, piano, plain, plan, plane, plot, project, schedule, scheme, shallow, slow, smooth, story, tabulate, tier). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 二階屋 (two storey house). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | にかいや (two storey house, two-story house). (various references) | |
Manx | laare [f] (bottom, deck, flat, floor, level, set, sill), laare (bottom, deck, flat, floor, level, set, sill, stylobate). (various references) | |
Norwegian | etasje (floor, story). (various references) | |
Papiamen | piso (floor, story). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | oreystay.(various references) | |
Polish | piętro (floor, story). (various references) | |
Portuguese | andar (ambulate, flat, floor, gait, go, march, march off, pace, pass, retreat, ride, roam, slouch, stalk, step, story, stream, stride, to walk, traipse, travel, tread, walk), pavimento (floor, flooring, pave, pavement, paving, story). (various references) | |
Romanian | etaj (flat, floor, story). (various references) | |
Russian | этаж (floor, level, story). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | uskladišten (stored). (various references) | |
Spanish | piso (apartment, deck, earth, flat, floor, flooring, rooms, sole, story, tier). (various references) | |
Swedish | våning (apartment, flat, floor, story, suite). (various references) | |
Turkish | kat (coat, coating, deck, fall, flat, floor, fold, lap, layer, multiple, pile, ply, stair, story). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | ярус, поверх (atop, floor). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | tầng (tier). (various references) | |
Welsh | llawr (earth, floor, ground). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "storey": storeyed, storeys. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "storey" (pronounced stô"rē) |
| 5 | s t ô" r ē | story. |
| 4 | -t ô" r ē | cacciatore, inventory, Tori, tory. |
| 3 | -ô" r ē | Corrie, Cory, Dory, glory, gory, hoary, lorry, lory, pylori, quarry, Signori. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: oyster, toyers. | |
| Words within the letters "e-o-r-s-t-y" | |
-1 letter: oyers, roset, rotes, ryots, store, story, stroy, tores, torse, toyer, treys, troys, tyers, tyres, tyros, yores. | |
-2 letters: eros, erst, ores, orts, oyer, oyes, rest, rets, roes, rose, rosy, rote, rots, ryes, ryot, sore, sort, stey, stye, toes, tore, tors, tory, toys, trey, troy, tyer, tyes, tyre, tyro, yore. | |
-3 letters: ers, oes, ore, ors. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-o-r-s-t-y" | |
+1 letter: destroy, oysters, royster, storeys, stroyed, stroyer. | |
+2 letters: botryose, corsetry, courtesy, destroys, drystone, elytrous, forestay, forestry, herstory, hostelry, isometry, overstay, oystered, oysterer, prostyle, protyles, roysters, serosity, serotype, skywrote, smothery, sobriety, storeyed, stroyers, tourneys, trolleys, tutoyers, tyrosine, urostyle. | |
+3 letters: allostery, astrocyte, attorneys, barytones, cerotypes, costumery, cryolites, destroyed, destroyer, desultory, dosimetry, erosivity, erythrons, forestays, hysteroid, keynoters, keystroke, kryolites, monastery, nervosity, osmometry, overhasty, overstays, overstory, oysterers, oystering, oysterman, oystermen, polyester, posterity, proselyte, prostyles, rhyolites, roseately, routeways, royalties, roystered, seaworthy, secretory, seniority, serotypes, skyrocket, southerly, strongyle, tyrosines, urostyles, verbosity, youngster. | |
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