storey

Meaning

1. A floor or level of a building or ship.
2. A vertical level in certain letters, such as a and g.
3. (obsolete) A building; an edifice.

Synonyms

floor

story

level

layer

story

stratum

tier

stage

deck

ply

row

sheet

step

wall

pair of stairs

canopy class

paries

class

coat

🧥

coating

course

floors

height

lift

bed

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Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈstɔːɹɪ/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: story

Cognate with Middle English: story

In summary

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.