storey
A floor or level of a building or ship.
Example
“For superstitious reasons, many buildings number their 13th storey as 14, bypassing 13 entirely.”
Other meanings
A vertical level in certain letters, such as a and g.
“The IPA symbol for a voiced velar stop is the single-storey 10px, not the double-storey 10px”
A building; an edifice.
Synonyms
- floor
- level
Word history
From Ancient Greek "ἱστορίᾱ" (learning through research).
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “storey” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.