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STOREY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A structure consisting of a room or set of rooms at a single position along a vertical scale
Example:
what level is the office on?
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("storey" is a kind of...):
construction; structure (a thing constructed; a complex entity constructed of many parts)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "storey"):
basement; cellar (the lowermost portion of a structure partly or wholly below ground level; often used for storage)
first floor; ground floor; ground level (the floor of a building that is at or nearest to the level of the ground around the building)
attic; garret; loft (floor consisting of open space at the top of a house just below roof; often used for storage)
loft (floor consisting of a large unpartitioned space over a factory or warehouse or other commercial space)
entresol; mezzanine; mezzanine floor (intermediate floor just above the ground floor)
Holonyms ("storey" is a part of...):
building; edifice (a structure that has a roof and walls and stands more or less permanently in one place)
Context examples:
It came out of the third storey; for it passed overhead.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
And the door at the end of the gallery opened, and Mr. Rochester advanced with a candle: he had just descended from the upper storey.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
The large front chambers I thought especially grand: and some of the third-storey rooms, though dark and low, were interesting from their air of antiquity.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Ere long, steps retreated up the gallery towards the third-storey staircase: a door had lately been made to shut in that staircase; I heard it open and close, and all was still.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
All these relics gave to the third storey of Thornfield Hall the aspect of a home of the past: a shrine of memory.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
However, on this night, she set fire first to the hangings of the room next her own, and then she got down to a lower storey, and made her way to the chamber that had been the governess's—(she was like as if she knew somehow how matters had gone on, and had a spite at her)—and she kindled the bed there; but there was nobody sleeping in it, fortunately.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Glad was I when I at last got her to Thornfield, and saw her safely lodged in that third-storey room, of whose secret inner cabinet she has now for ten years made a wild beast's den—a goblin's cell.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
This was when I chanced to see the third-storey staircase door (which of late had always been kept locked) open slowly, and give passage to the form of Grace Poole, in prim cap, white apron, and handkerchief; when I watched her glide along the gallery, her quiet tread muffled in a list slipper; when I saw her look into the bustling, topsy-turvy bedrooms,—just say a word, perhaps, to the charwoman about the proper way to polish a grate, or clean a marble mantelpiece, or take stains from papered walls, and then pass on.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Only one hour in the twenty-four did she pass with her fellow-servants below; all the rest of her time was spent in some low-ceiled, oaken chamber of the second storey: there she sat and sewed—and probably laughed drearily to herself,—as companionless as a prisoner in his dungeon.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
We mounted the first staircase, passed up the gallery, proceeded to the third storey: the low, black door, opened by Mr. Rochester's master-key, admitted us to the tapestried room, with its great bed and its pictorial cabinet.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
