Storey Or Floor

A level of a building.

Storey or floor. Plurals for the word are storeys and stories for the english uk and english us versions respectively. In american english it s spelled story and stories and at street level it s the first floor ground floor is not used. As nouns the difference between storey and floor is that storey is a floor or level of a building or ship while floor is the bottom or lower part of any room.

Storey plural storeys a building. A storey of a building is one of its different levels which is situated above or below other levels. So the ground floor is the first storey never story and the first floor the second storey. As a verb floor is to cover or furnish with a floor.

Floor level flight deck more synonyms of storey. The supporting surface of a room. For the noun referring to a horizontal level of a building story is the standard spelling in american english and storey is preferred in all the other main varieties of english. Floor is freely used alongside storey i have no reason to believe that the use of either term is geographically restricted.

Houses must not be more than two storeys high the upper storeys of the empire state building. The first storey is at ground level and second storey is the one above. A storey british english or story american english is any level part of a building with a floor that could be used by people for living work storage recreation et cetera. Floor level story us coordinate term.

The ground flor is at ground level and the first floor is abve that. A level of a building. A floor or level of a building or ship.