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# storey

noun (a storey, storeys)

«storey» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. A storey is one floor or level of a building. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/storey/#m1)
2. "Multi-storey" describes a building with many floors, like a multi-storey car park. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/storey/#m2)

### In the lessons

In everyday life and maths, buildings are described by storeys: a two-storey house, a ten-storey block of flats. In maths problems, you may multiply storeys by height per storey. In stories, a giant may be "three storeys tall". Phrases: "a two-storey house", "multi-storey car park", "on the top storey".

### Examples

- We live in a two-storey house. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/storey/#x1)
- The library is on the top storey of the building. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/storey/#x2)
- The multi-storey car park was full. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/storey/#x3)
- The giant was as tall as a three-storey building. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/storey/#x4)
- The new block of flats has twelve storeys. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/storey/#x5)
- If each storey is 3 metres high, a 5-storey building is about 15 metres tall. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/storey/#x6)
- His dwelling-house was a large building, three storeys high, with little turrets. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/storey/#x7)

### Note

British, Irish, Australian and New Zealand spelling: storey, plural storeys. American spelling: story, plural stories — the same as a tale! So in American books "a three-story house" means floors, not tales. In maths: total height ≈ number of storeys × height of one storey. In the UK the "ground floor" is the bottom; in the USA that is the "first floor".

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «storey» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/storey/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«storey» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/storey.html) on Mova free.