five-storey building

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• storey - floor — ◊ storey You refer to the different levels in a building as its storeys or floors. If you are saying how many levels a building has, you usually use storeys. For example, you say The new hospital is five storeys high or I work in a six storey… …   Useful english dictionary

• Storey — Ground floor redirects here. For the bottom floor of a building with no basement, see solid ground floor. For other uses, see Storey (disambiguation). A storey (British English) or story (American English) is any level part of a building that… …   Wikipedia

• storey — sto|rey BrE story AmE [ˈsto:ri] n [Date: 1300 1400; Origin: story; perhaps because some medieval buildings had paintings on their walls telling stories] a floor or level of a building ▪ a staircase leads to the upper storey two storey/five storey …   Dictionary of contemporary English

• storey — BrE story AmE noun (C) 1 a floor or level of a building 2 two storey/five storey etc having two etc storeys …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

• Five Ways, Birmingham — Five Ways is an area of Birmingham, England. It takes its name from a major road junction, now a busy roundabout (with pedestrian subways through a traffic island) to the south west of the city centre which lies at the outward end of Broad Street …   Wikipedia

• Hoover Building — The Hoover Building on the Western Avenue (A40) in Perivale, Middlesex is an example of Art Deco architecture, designed by Wallis, Gilbert and Partners. It is celebrated in the song Hoover Factory by Elvis Costello.HistoryBuilt for The Hoover… …   Wikipedia

• Old Canadian Bank of Commerce Building, Montreal — The Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce Building (or Édifice Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce) is a building at 265 Saint Jacques Street in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Contents 1 History 2 See also 3 References …   Wikipedia

• floor - storey — ◊ storey You refer to the different levels in a building as its storeys or floors. If you are saying how many levels a building has, you usually use storeys. For example, you say The new hospital is five storeys high or I work in a six storey… …   Useful english dictionary

• storey — (esp. BrE) (AmE usually story) noun ADJECTIVE ▪ lower ▪ top, upper ▪ first, second, etc. ▪ He …   Collocations dictionary

• storey — n. (also story) (pl. eys or ies) 1 any of the parts into which a building is divided horizontally; the whole of the rooms etc. having a continuous floor (a third storey window; a house of five storeys). 2 a thing forming a horizontal division.… …   Useful english dictionary

• storey — Story Sto ry, n.; pl. {Stories}. [OF. estor[ e], estor[ e]e, built, erected, p. p. of estorer to build, restore, to store. See {Store}, v. t.] A set of rooms on the same floor or level; a floor, or the space between two floors. Also, a horizontal …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English