Definitions
a structure consisting of a room or set of rooms at a single position along a vertical scale
Word origin
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.
Used in a sentence
“For superstitious reasons, many buildings number their 13th storey as 14, bypassing 13 entirely.”
“a multi-storey car park”
“Let the ſtreet be 100 feet in breadth, from front to front; ſunk ſtorey, from front to paliſade, 10 feet; breadth of pavement, 8 feet; the height of the houſe 2 ſtories, 15 feet each, from floor to floor; […]”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Floor of a building”6 letters
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